Jehane Noujaim

Jehane Noujaim ( Egyptian Arabic : چيهان نچيم , IPA: [ʒehæːn nʊʒeːm] ) is an Egyptian American documentary film director best known for re films Control Room , [1] Startup.com , Pangea Day and The Square , the Latter or welke earned re a nomination for an Academy Award.

Career

Noujaim was born to an Egyptian Father and an American mother. She was raised in Kuwait and Cairo and moved to Boston by the age of 10, in 1990. [2] [3]

She attended Milton Academy , [4] matriculated to Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude in visual arts and philosophy . The co-year voordat re graduation, Noujaim was Awarded the Gardiner fellowship under welke she directed Mokattam , an Arabic film about a garbage-collecting village near Cairo in Egypt.

She joined the MTV news and documentary division as a segment producer for the documentary series Unfiltered . Noujaim later left re job at MTV to produce and direct Startup.com under the guidance of documentary filmmaker DA Pennebaker in association with Pennebaker Hegedus Films . The feature length, highly acclaimed documentary has won numerous distinguished awards waaronder the DGA and IDA Awards for best documentary. She won the DGA Award again for The Square in 2014. [5]

She has since worked in zowel the Middle East and the United States as a Cinematographer on verschillende documentaries waaronder Born Rich ( Jamie Johnson ), Only the Strong Survive ( Chris Hegedus , DA Pennebaker ), and Down from the Mountain (DA Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus , Nick Doob ). [6]

In 2004, she directed the feature-length film Control Room , a documentary about US Central Command and its relations with Al Jazeera and other news organizations dat Covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq , welke rewarded with re the TED prize in 2006. This made re the first and youngest woman to do so. In 2007, she co-directed (with Sherief El Katsha) the film Shayfeen.com welke was broadcast as part of the WhyDemocracy project. In 2012 she released Rafea: Solar Mama (welke she directed with Mona Eldaeif). A documentary about a group of women leaving hun villages to learn about solar engineering, only to return and solar power hun eigen society. And in 2013 she released The Square , a film-following the Egyptian revolution and the inspiration it has bepaald to the world. [7]

In January 2014 , The Square was nominated for an Academy Award documentary category. The Square ook won critical Acclaim in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival & the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival . [7]

Pangea Day

After winning the TED Prize , Noujaim-used re wish to Organize Pangea Day , a live Videoconferencing dat took place in New York City, Rio de Janeiro, London, Dharamsala, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Kigali on May 10, 2008. The show was Internationally broadcast over four hours through the internet, television and mobile phones. It featured films, speakers, and music.

Filmography

Year film
2000 Down from the Mountain
2001 Startup.com
2002 Only the Strong Survive
2004 Control Room
2012 Rafea: Solar Mama
2013 The Square

References

  1. Jump up^ Derry, Charles (October 29, 2009). Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century . McFarland. pp. 382-. ISBN  9780786433971 . Retrieved June 4, 2012 .
  2. Jump up^ “Biography” . PBS . August 6, 2004 . Retrieved January 5, 2013 .
  3. Jump up^ Appelo, Tim (July 7, 2014). ” ‘ The Square’ Filmmaker Leaks Oscar Nominee Online Risking Egypt censors” Wrath ” . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 25, 2016 .
  4. Jump up^ “Jehane Noujaim ’92, to Address graduating class” . Milton Academy . April 2008 . Retrieved January 5, 2013 .
  5. Jump up^ Appelo, Tim (July 2, 2014). “Jehane Noujaim’s” The Square, “Netflix’s first Oscar nominee – and the first ever from Egypt – has found zijn audience” . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 25, 2016 .
  6. Jump up^ Sailor Craig (February 13, 2015). “PLU to host filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, screen ‘The Square’ documentary on Egypt” . The News Tribune . Retrieved February 25, 2016 .
  7. ^ Jump up to:a b “Jehane Noujaim 2015” . Pacific Lutheran University . Retrieved February 26, 2016 .