Amir El-Shenawy

BIOGRAPHIE

Amir El-Shenawy is an Egyptian award-winning film director and producer. His feature documentary debut, Kilo 64, had its world premiere at the Cairo International Film Festival in 2018, earning nominations for both Best Arab Film and Best Artistic Contribution awards, and winning the First Feature Film prize from the National Festival for Egyptian Cinema. His short documentary ‘EDRIS’ won a ‘Special Mention’ Award at the official competition of Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia in 2022. His latest short documentary ‘Drowning Fish’ was officially selected at Ismailia International Film Festival and nominated for the best short documentary award in March 2023. After studying journalism at the Danish School of Media in Denmark in 2011, Amir earned his BA from the American University in Cairo in 2013, majoring in Media Arts and double minoring in Film and Arab & Islamic Civilizations. He then received his MA in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths University, London, in 2017. A recipient of the Chevening Scholarship and a Fellow of Film Independent, Amir is also an alumnus of the Rotterdam Lab, a training workshop for the most promising young producers organized by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Since 2021, El Shenawy has been an adjunct faculty at the American University in Cairo and Misr International University where he teaches filmmaking courses. Amir is currently working on his second feature documentary project, American Dream. The project, which is right now at production stage, has received development funds from Red Sea International Film Festival and Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), and is supported by Cairo International Film Festival and International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA), and it is expected to be released in 2024.

FILMOGRAPHIE