Arab Film Awards Jury
Producer, Italy
Enzo Porcelli, An Italian producer, was born in Rome. He studied Law at the University of Rome, and from 1965 to 1967 he studied Film Production at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Since 1970, his filmography includes than 60 films, including Gianni Amelio’s films (“Colpire al cuore”, “Il ladro di bambini”, “Lamerica”, “Le chiavi di casa”, “La stella che non c’è”), Marco Bellocchio’s films (“Il Gabbiano”, “Salto nel vuoto”, “Gli occhi, la bocca”, “Enrico IV”, “Vacanze in Val Trebbia”, “La macchina cinema”) and films by the most important Italian and European directors.
All these films, were given many awards in festivals around the world, including an Oscar, two Golden Palms and a Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, a Silver Lion at Venice Film Festival, Golden and Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Golden, Silver and Bronze Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, and others.
Hind Al Faheed is a director and writer from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She started her career in the film industry over 10 years ago. She has directed a number of short films that have participated in regional and international festivals.
She is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Cinema Society and was the head of the Student Jury Committee in the seventh edition of the Saudi Film Festival.
Her film Bustah won the Gulf Mahr award in the Dubai Film Festival in 2015. She also co-directed the all female crew film, Becoming, which was produced by the Red Sea Film Fund. Similarly, her film Shurshaf received funding from the Red Sea International Film Lab. She works as a consultant in content development and drama scripts.
Tamer Karawan was born in Cairo in 1969. He studied Engineering at the American University in Cairo then studied Music at The Royal Academy of Music. He worked as an editor at the BBC, and then a documentary director at Orbit TV network.
In 1998, Karawan dedicated himself entirely to composing film scores. His first score was for Yousri Nasrallah’s El Medina in 1998. Then he started a journey of collaborating with famous Egyptian directors, such as Raafat El-Mihi, Mohamed Khan, Osama Fawzy, Sameh Abdel Aziz’s Cabaret. Karawan continued composing distinguished scores for renowned director Yousri Nasrallah’s films. He has also composed the musical scores for several documentaries and several television dramas and thrillers. He composed the film scores for Tahani Rached’s These Girls (2006) and Yousri Nasrallah’s The Gate of Sun (2004) both of which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival Out of Competition section.