Dana Younes

BIOGRAPHIE

Dana Ibrahim Younes, (Born in July 3rd, 1997, Beirut Lebanon), an aspiring Lebanese filmmaker. Younes was raised in South Lebanon before she moved to Beirut to pursue her studies in film in the Lebanese American University in 2016. In her three academic years, she was able to write, direct, perform and produce one music video (Ma Eendak Khabar; Al Moraba', 2017), three short movies; leading actress Manal Issa was the leading actress in (Cola-Paris, 2016), Tala Al Nachar in (Home, 2018), and Tarek Majzoub was the leading actor in (November, 2019). Younes and her colleague Baha' Radwan participated, in November 2017, in a scriptwriting contest that aims and works on motivating Arab women to participate in political movements. Radwan and Younes won the prize in this contest funded by the British embassy and organized by Search for Common Ground and ABAAD. In January 2018, they filmed the script of Yellow light (05mins59sec) that they wrote, Tala Al Nachar produced and both of them directed, Wafa' Halawi and Talal Al Jurdi were the leading actors. Younes never tried to hide their passion to any piece or form of art, she also performed in two theatrical plays directed by their close friends in college back then. One of these two plays, was Huis Clos written by the existential philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, and she played the role of Inez in October 2017. Younes took part in fourteen other student short movies, she was the main performer of three of them, the producer of two of them, assistant art direction on two of them... She never stuck on one position. In February 2021, Younes started her career as a freelancer writer/producer/director, she started working as a production manager in the pre production phase for the production of her first feature film "Ayyoubeh" written, directed and produced by Awad Awad. She produced a food blog YouTube episode of fifteen minutes for her brother Rami in April 2021, she was also the production manager for "twelve" 's pre production and production phases in May and June 2021, a feature film directed by Boudi Sfeir, produced by Tarek Hakmi. Younes joined Prague Film School in August 2021, and started an intensive filmmaking workshop there. She was able to shoot her first short, sound design and edit for the first timef, besides she wrote, directed and coproduced it; Trotz der Liebe (02mins 50sec), the leading actress was Sofia Willhauk. She also wrote, directed, performed and coproduced two other short movies, one of them is still in the post production phase; Černé Jezero; leading actors Roma el Ali and her. The second one was her final short movie, screened in Kino Evald in Prague; Al Barzakh (05mins 09sec). Now, Younes is joining a "directing and editing program" in Paris at ACFA, an art school for 2021-2022 academic year.

FILMOGRAPHIE