LELOUN FESTIVAL JURY

First season 2020

Ali Ahmed Badrakhan

He was born in Cairo 4/25/1946
Film Director, Professor of Directing at the Higher Film Institute – Academy of Arts
2004-2006 Professor of TV and Radio Direction at the Faculty of Mass Communication – 6th of October University.
2005-2009 Professor of Directing at the International Academy of Engineering and Media Sciences.
2009 and until now he supervises the film-making workshop at Badrakhan Center for Culture and Arts.

Publications and Publications:

Film directing craftswomen – cinematic writing craftsmen – cinema acting craftsmen.
Narrative films (The Love That Was – The bus- Carry Me and Carry You – Shafiqa and Metwally – People of the Summit – Hunger – Shepherd and Women – The Third Man – Freak – Desire)Documentary films(International Initiative – Palm Beach – Prosperity Soldiers – Exiting Beirut – Is There Anyone – Abbas Inventor’s Uncle)
Most of his fictional and documentary films have won international awards, in addition to many certificates of appreciation and honors.

ALI AHMED BADRAKHAN

Ali Ahmed Badrakhan

He was born in Cairo 4/25/1946
Film Director, Professor of Directing at the Higher Film Institute – Academy of Arts
2004-2006 Professor of TV and Radio Direction at the Faculty of Mass Communication – 6th of October University.
2005-2009 Professor of Directing at the International Academy of Engineering and Media Sciences.
2009 and until now he supervises the film-making workshop at Badrakhan Center for Culture and Arts.

Publications and Publications:

Film directing craftswomen – cinematic writing craftsmen – cinema acting craftsmen.
Narrative films (The Love That Was – The bus- Carry Me and Carry You – Shafiqa and Metwally – People of the Summit – Hunger – Shepherd and Women – The Third Man – Freak – Desire)Documentary films(International Initiative – Palm Beach – Prosperity Soldiers – Exiting Beirut – Is There Anyone – Abbas Inventor’s Uncle)
Most of his fictional and documentary films have won international awards, in addition to many certificates of appreciation and honors.

TOURAJ ASLANI

Touraj Aslani

He is cinematographer (DOP) and Director
He was born in Kermanshah on December 26, 1973
He studied Javix at the Kermanshah Institute.
He studied film directing at the University of Tehran, 1999.
He has more than 50 films as director of lighting and filming in cinema (Iranian – Iraqi – Turkish)
Executive Director of some fictional and documentary projects.
Almost 35 international awards.

BAROJ AKRAYI

Baroj Akrayi

Writer, poet, translator and photographer
Born in 1963 Kurdistan, Iraq.
1974 migrated to Iran.
1990 migrated to Sweden.
2010 returned to Kurdistan, Iraq.
Baroj writes poetry, criticism, and screenplay in Kurdish.
He has six collections of poetry, also does translation. He translated well known Persian literature into Kurdish language, and he only writes stories in Persian. He has two collections of stories.
Baroj also acted in: Memories on Stone, Directed by: Shakawt Amin Korki

Husain Hasan

Kurdish director and actor
Born in Dohuk – Iraqi Kurdistan 1974
Feature films: ( Memories On Stone- Narcissus Blossom- Mardan- Herman )

Awards:

Long Pony Award for Best Fiction Film (Black Storm)
UNESCO Cultural Prize 2016. (Black storm)
Best Film Award at the Dubai Film Festival

HUSAIN HASAN

Husain Hasan

Kurdish director and actor
Born in Dohuk – Iraqi Kurdistan 1974
Feature films: ( Memories On Stone- Narcissus Blossom- Mardan- Herman )

Awards:

Long Pony Award for Best Fiction Film (Black Storm)
UNESCO Cultural Prize 2016. (Black storm)
Best Film Award at the Dubai Film Festival

BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI

Benedetta Argentieri

Benedetta is based in New York City. Since 2014 she has been focusing on Iraq and Syria with several trips on the ground.
She writes for both Italian and American publications while directing full-length documentaries.
Benedetta graduated from Columbia University where she obtained an MA in Journalism and Politics.

www.benedetta-argentieri.com

Apo W. Bazidi

Screenwriter and director
Apo believes in making a positive change and his lifelong motto is “Bre creative and inspire”.
The movies : (How Far Is Home, Resistance Is Life, Heavy Burden, Trousers, Cab57, Hands Around The World )
A collection of prizes in several festivals around the world for the best documentary film ( Resistance is Life) (San Diego International Film Festival – SCAD Film Festival – San Francisco Doc Festival etc. )

APO W. BAZIDI

Apo W. Bazidi

Screenwriter and director
Apo believes in making a positive change and his lifelong motto is “Bre creative and inspire”.
The movies : (How Far Is Home, Resistance Is Life, Heavy Burden, Trousers, Cab57, Hands Around The World )
A collection of prizes in several festivals around the world for the best documentary film ( Resistance is Life) (San Diego International Film Festival – SCAD Film Festival – San Francisco Doc Festival etc. )

ERIKA GONZALES FLORES

Erika González Flores

BA in History (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) MA in International
History (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, CIDE A.C.). Diploma in
Curatorial Studies (Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana), and International Conflicts and Reconciliation Processes (Universidad Iberoamericana).
She has collaborated as a historical advisor for public institutions such as Mexican Senate and the Congress TV Channel. She also coordinated the first Women’s Museum in Mexico City between 2011 and 2015.
She participated in the 2018 and 2019 annual conferences “Diversities of the Arab World”, organized by the History Department at Centro de Investigación y Docencia
Económicas, along with the School of Government and Social Sciences of Tecnológico de Monterrey, hold in Mexico City, presenting lectures on Kurdish Cinema. Erika is coauthorof the book “Sin maletas. Historias de refugiados desde el exilio” (Bogotá: Ícono,2017), with a chapter about Yezidi Women from Sinjar, based on the original story by the Kurdish photojournalist Seivan Salim. She did a research stay at the Center for Turkish,Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asia Studies, EHESS, (Paris, France), in 2019.
Sheorganized the exhibition of Rojava International Film Festival at the National University,in Mexico City in 2019.
Her master thesis is the first work in Latin America about the Kurdish Cinema by focusing on both the national discourse and the transnational practices.
Her research interests include Diaspora, Identities and Transnational Cinema.