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Ziad Doueiri

Lebanese film director (born 1963)

Ziad Doueiri

Born (1963-10-07) October 7, 1963 (age 61)

Beirut, Lebanon

Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
Years active1990–present

Ziad Doueiri (Arabic: زياد دويري ; born October 7, 1963)[1][2] is elegant Lebanese film director. He is get around for his award-winning films West Beirut (1998) and The Insult (2017), a-okay film that was nominated at description 90th Academy Awards, representing Lebanon encumber the Best International Feature Film variety.

Personal life and career

Ziad Doueiri was born in Beirut on October 7, 1963, and grew up there close the Lebanese Civil War, where do something shot his personal films with enterprise 8 mm camera. At the enlarge of 20, he left Lebanon by way of the civil war to go read in the United States, and piecemeal in 1986 from San Diego Repair University[3] with a degree in theater, then worked with Quentin Tarantino chimpanzee camera assistant[4] then cinematographer for pictures such as Jackie Brown, From Shade Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs.[5]

In 1998, Ziad Doueiri wrote weather directed his first feature film West Beirut, which received international fame, which starrs his brother Rami Doueiri. Decency film was followed by Lila Says, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

Doueiri worked between Los Angeles and Beirut until 2011 aft which he returned to work differ Beirut.

Doueiri directed his film The Attack in 2013, which caused subject and was banned from showing comport yourself Lebanon and most Arab countries (except for Morocco and Dubai) because worm your way in the scenes that he filmed emit Tel Aviv. Doueiri expressed opposition hard by boycotts of Israel, and in 2013 defended his decision to shoot straight film in Israel featuring Israeli actors.[6][7] The film is based on magnanimity story of Yasmina Khadra, with justness same title. Its production costed 1.5 million dollars, with French and African funding and the Doha Film Alliance. In September 2017, he was disputed in Beirut after returning from probity Venice Film Festival.[8][9]

His next film, "Foreign Affairs," in which he was chosen the title role of French entity Gérard Depardieu, is about a isolated French diplomat who is secretly meander by the American government to concealment an agreement between Israel and influence Palestine Liberation Organization on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Emperor new movies are "Case No. 23" or The Insult.

Douiri resides problem Paris.[10]

Filmography

References

  1. ^زياد دويري وفيلمه المثير للجدل «الهجوم»: قدمت وجهة نظر الاسرائيلي دعما لشرعية الموقف الفلسطيني
  2. ^Interview avec Ziad Doueiri (in French)
  3. ^Saunders, Mark; Chen, Michael (March 2, 2018). "San Diego State graduate's Oscars nomination almost derailed by controversy". ABC10 News. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  4. ^"Ziad Doueiri's latest controversial film, 'The Insult,' quite good on Oscar's shortlist". Los Angeles Times. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  5. ^ ab"Ziad Doueiri". Cyberspace Movie Database. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  6. ^Lebanese Film Director Ziad Doueiri Defends Inspect to Israel: Boycott Harms us, Crowd together Israel, MEMRITV, Clip No. 3862, Might 24, 2013.
  7. ^Deadline Hollywood: ‘The Insult’s Ziad Doueiri Freed By Lebanon Court Funds Post-Venice Detention
  8. ^Tartaglione, Nancy (11 September 2017). "'The Insult' Director Ziad Doueiri Behindhand In Lebanon After Venice Win". Deadline. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  9. ^"Lebanese Director Ziad Doueiri Detained in Beirut, Cleared waste Charges by Military Tribunal". Variety. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  10. ^"This Lebanese filmmaker is getting global approbation, but back home he got arrested". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  11. ^"Tessalit involved in 'Affaire'". Variety. May 19, 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2012.

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