Lucien Bourjeily

Lucien Bourjeily

BIOGRAPHIE

Lucien Bourjeily is a writer and director of both theater and film and a pioneer practitioner in immersive and interactive theatre. He was awarded the Fulbright scholarship and subsequently completed a M.F.A in Filmmaking in 2013 at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His work in both theatre and film has traveled the worldwide festival circuits and won him many awards. He brought his progressive approach to theatre to London's LIFT Festival in 2012 with his hard-hitting immersive play "66 Minutes in Damascus" which was chosen as one of 10 plays in the world that "rethink the stage" by the Huffington Post and then in 2014 with “Vanishing State” that immersed the audience in the WW1 world of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement. He was also nominated for the “Freedom of Expression” awards in 2014, held annually in London by "Index on Censorship". In 2017, “Heaven Without People”, his debut feature-length fiction film won the Dubai International Film Festival Special Jury prize along with 5 other awards internationally, was nominated for the Jordan Ressler screenwriting award, and traveled to more than 25 film festivals. He is currently developing his second feature film entitled “Vanishing”.

FILMOGRAPHIE