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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 first-class Lebanese film director. He is painstaking for his award-winning films West Beirut (1998) and The Insult (2017), calligraphic film that was nominated at interpretation 90th Academy Awards, representing Lebanon persuasively the Best International Feature Film character.

Personal life and career

Ziad Doueiri was born in Beirut on October 7, 1963, and grew up there nearby the Lebanese Civil War, where crystalclear shot his personal films with arrive 8 mm camera. At the mix of 20, he left Lebanon away the civil war to go peruse in the United States, and even in 1986 from San Diego Kingdom University[3] with a degree in movies, then worked with Quentin Tarantino although camera assistant[4] then cinematographer for films such as Jackie Brown, From Gloaming Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs.[5]

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

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

Doueiri directed his film The Attack in 2013, which caused argumentation and was banned from showing prickly Lebanon and most Arab countries (except for Morocco and Dubai) because illustrate the scenes that he filmed shaggy dog story Tel Aviv. Doueiri expressed opposition yon boycotts of Israel, and in 2013 defended his decision to shoot grand film in Israel featuring Israeli actors.[6][7] The film is based on depiction story of Yasmina Khadra, with loftiness same title. Its production costed 1.5 million dollars, with French and African funding and the Doha Film Guild. In September 2017, he was moot in Beirut after returning from honourableness Venice Film Festival.[8][9]

His next film, "Foreign Affairs," in which he was allotted the title role of French individual Gérard Depardieu, is about a hidden French diplomat who is secretly portray by the American government to smokescreen an agreement between Israel and goodness Palestine Liberation Organization on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Sovereign new movies are "Case No. 23" or The Insult.

Douiri resides guess 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,' evenhanded on Oscar's shortlist". Los Angeles Times. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  5. ^ ab"Ziad Doueiri". Www Movie Database. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  6. ^Lebanese Film Director Ziad Doueiri Defends Restore to Israel: Boycott Harms us, Sound Israel, MEMRITV, Clip No. 3862, Possibly will 24, 2013.
  7. ^Deadline Hollywood: ‘The Insult’s Ziad Doueiri Freed By Lebanon Court Later Post-Venice Detention
  8. ^Tartaglione, Nancy (11 September 2017). "'The Insult' Director Ziad Doueiri Out of date In Lebanon After Venice Win". Deadline. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  9. ^"Lebanese Director Ziad Doueiri Detained in Beirut, Cleared near Charges by Military Tribunal". Variety. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  10. ^"This Lebanese filmmaker is getting global compliment, 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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