Mad Celebrity — the talent management subsidiary of the pan-Arab film and TV company Mad Solutions — has signed Tunisian actor and writer Majd Mastoura, French Lebanese actor Isabelle Zighondi, and Saudi actor, producer and director Amawri Ezayah to the roster of its Mad Rising Celebrity unit, and visual artist, producer and Dop Mostafa El Kashef, who will be joining Mad Crew Celebrity.
Mastoura is best known for his work on Mohamed Ben Attia’s “Hedi” — for which he received a Silver Bear for best actor from the Berlin Film Festival, making him the first-ever Arab actor to receive the award — and Léonor Serraille’s “Mother and Son,” which world premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
His most recent project is Ben Attia’s surreal Tunisian drama feature “Behind the Mountains,” which world premiered in the Horizons Section of this year’s Venice Film Festival and is holding its Arab...
Mastoura is best known for his work on Mohamed Ben Attia’s “Hedi” — for which he received a Silver Bear for best actor from the Berlin Film Festival, making him the first-ever Arab actor to receive the award — and Léonor Serraille’s “Mother and Son,” which world premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
His most recent project is Ben Attia’s surreal Tunisian drama feature “Behind the Mountains,” which world premiered in the Horizons Section of this year’s Venice Film Festival and is holding its Arab...
- 12/5/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Beirut-based production powerhouse Cedars Art Productions is having one of its best Ramadan runs ever with eight new series that are all currently scoring stellar ratings during the region’s peak TV season across the Arab world.
The prominent Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region film and TV company – which also has offices in Cairo, Casablanca, and Dubai – is heading to the Cannes MipTV market with a slew of shows, many of which push boundaries in an effort to appeal to a younger generation of Arab viewers.
Case in point is timely drama “Soul Rising” featuring Egyptian star Menna Shalabi as a young woman named Rouh who, in search of her son, winds up captive at an Isis camp for female fugitives amid fierce fighting in Syria. This series has been submitted for International Emmy consideration, said Cedars’ president Sadek Anwar Sabbah.
Speaking exclusively to Variety, Sabbah pointed out...
The prominent Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region film and TV company – which also has offices in Cairo, Casablanca, and Dubai – is heading to the Cannes MipTV market with a slew of shows, many of which push boundaries in an effort to appeal to a younger generation of Arab viewers.
Case in point is timely drama “Soul Rising” featuring Egyptian star Menna Shalabi as a young woman named Rouh who, in search of her son, winds up captive at an Isis camp for female fugitives amid fierce fighting in Syria. This series has been submitted for International Emmy consideration, said Cedars’ president Sadek Anwar Sabbah.
Speaking exclusively to Variety, Sabbah pointed out...
- 4/14/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
David Tennant, French comedy Call My Agent and Israeli drama Tehran are among those vying for prizes at the International Emmy Awards this year. Nominations for the awards this year saw 44 nominees across 11 categories and a record number of 24 countries.
Tennant is up for Best Performance from an Actor for his starring role in ITV crime series Des while Call My Agent has been nominated in the comedy category and Tehran in the Drama Series category.
Actress Menna Shalaby has earned her first ever Emmy nomination for her performance in the crime mini-series Every Week Has A Friday.
“We’re so proud of our nominees and the record-breaking number of countries,” said International Academy President and CEO Bruce Paisner in a statement. “To those who feared the pandemic would slow down TV production around the world, this is your answer.”
Winners will be announced at an in-person ceremony in New...
Tennant is up for Best Performance from an Actor for his starring role in ITV crime series Des while Call My Agent has been nominated in the comedy category and Tehran in the Drama Series category.
Actress Menna Shalaby has earned her first ever Emmy nomination for her performance in the crime mini-series Every Week Has A Friday.
“We’re so proud of our nominees and the record-breaking number of countries,” said International Academy President and CEO Bruce Paisner in a statement. “To those who feared the pandemic would slow down TV production around the world, this is your answer.”
Winners will be announced at an in-person ceremony in New...
- 9/23/2021
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Leyla Bouzid’s As I Open My Eyes won best fiction film in the Muhr Feature competition at this year’s Dubai International Film Festival (Diff), while Mahmood Soliman’s We Have Never Been Kids scooped best non-fiction film and best director.
Bouzid’s Tunis-set drama tells the story of a young woman singing in a political rock band in the run-up to the Tunisian revolution. Soliman’s documentary is about an Egyptian woman trying to look after her four children around the time of her divorce.
Salem Brahimi’s Let Them Come, about a family affected by a rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism in 1990s Algeria, scooped the Special Jury Prize in the Muhr Feature competition.
Best actress went to Menna Shalabi for her performance in Egyptian filmmaker Hala Khalil’s Nawara, while best actor went to Lotfi Abdelli for Tunisian director Fares Naanaa’s Borders Of Heaven.
“We have been so impressed with the female...
Bouzid’s Tunis-set drama tells the story of a young woman singing in a political rock band in the run-up to the Tunisian revolution. Soliman’s documentary is about an Egyptian woman trying to look after her four children around the time of her divorce.
Salem Brahimi’s Let Them Come, about a family affected by a rising tide of Islamic fundamentalism in 1990s Algeria, scooped the Special Jury Prize in the Muhr Feature competition.
Best actress went to Menna Shalabi for her performance in Egyptian filmmaker Hala Khalil’s Nawara, while best actor went to Lotfi Abdelli for Tunisian director Fares Naanaa’s Borders Of Heaven.
“We have been so impressed with the female...
- 12/16/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Yousry Nasrallah's Cannes offering is an act of defiance, a deeply political film shot amid hostility in Tahrir Square
The Egyptian film-maker Yousry Nasrallah and his cast withstood harassment and intimidation to bring their film to the screen. At one point, shooting in Tahrir Square amid the demonstrations of July 2011, the female cast members were attacked, and lead actor Menna Shalabi taunted as a "whore".
The producers even used a false title for the film to give the impression that they were shooting a romance, rather than use the real title – After the Battle – and betray the fact that they were making a film that, while fictional, was an on-the-spot, deeply political account of two people from opposite sides of society caught up in the Egyptian revolution.
But, said the director, the struggle to make the film was itself an act of defiance "in a context where cinema is being attacked as a sin,...
The Egyptian film-maker Yousry Nasrallah and his cast withstood harassment and intimidation to bring their film to the screen. At one point, shooting in Tahrir Square amid the demonstrations of July 2011, the female cast members were attacked, and lead actor Menna Shalabi taunted as a "whore".
The producers even used a false title for the film to give the impression that they were shooting a romance, rather than use the real title – After the Battle – and betray the fact that they were making a film that, while fictional, was an on-the-spot, deeply political account of two people from opposite sides of society caught up in the Egyptian revolution.
But, said the director, the struggle to make the film was itself an act of defiance "in a context where cinema is being attacked as a sin,...
- 5/17/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
It appears that we’ve got our first dud of the fest in only day 2 by way of Yousry Nasrallah‘s After the Battle. While we can admire the quick shooting pace of the filmmaker (this is based on the events that occurred on Tahrir Square early in 2011) the film starring Nahed El Sebaï, Bassem Samra and Menna Shalabi failed to impress our panel. Baad el Mawkeaa is Nasrallah’s 9th feature film (8 works of fiction and one documentary) and this counts as his fourth visit to the Croisette. Click to enlarge!
- 5/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The director: Yousry Nasrallah (Egyptian, 59 years old) The talent: I admit defeat. After scouring the internet for details of the cast and crew of this one, all I can tell you is that it stars Nahed El Sebaï (one of the lead actresses from Egyptian feminist drama "678," which netted a number of prizes on the smaller festival circuit last year), Bassem Samra (a longstanding collaborator of the director, acclaimed for his turn in Nasrallah's laurelled 1999 film "El Medina") and Menna Shalabi (whose 12-year filmography contains, I confess, no titles I recognize). I can't even locate a screenplay credit...
- 5/9/2012
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
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