Alex A. Salam

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[EN] Alex’s stories often place characters in intense situations that force them to confront their humanity. Before being a writer/director, Alex had a career as a medical doctor, working in some of the world's most challenging environments, including spending a year on the planet's most isolated research station in Antarctica, managing an Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone during the West African Ebola outbreak, and conducting research on plague and other epidemics for the UK government. His first short, Crashing, screened at multiple Oscar and BAFTA qualifying festivals and received a special mention for the Oscar-qualifying Light in Motion Prize at the Foyle Film Festival. Twenty Twenty is partly based on his experiences as a COVID doctor. He is one of six writer/directors selected for the inaugural UK NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab, a recipient of the 2024 Bafta Rocliffe Writing Prize, and a graduate of the NFTS John Yorke Writers’ Academy.

FILMOGRAPHIE