Previous Sessions | Photo Gallery | Registration | Site Map Home About Us Regulations News & Press Sections Prizes Conference Schedule Theaters Contacts Member of The International Jury for Arab Films Samir Farag Cinematographer– (Egypt) He has been one of the most important cinematographers in the Arab world for the past twenty-five years. He was born in 1942, Cairo, Egypt and graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema, Cinematography in 1964. He is camera director and cinema producer. He is also a part-time Professor in the Higher Institute of Cinema since 1980. From 1995 to 2000, he worked as Lighting and Camera Consultant at ART radio and television. He is also academy instructor on different arts establishment. He produced four films:" "Shams El Zinati", "El Elrhabi (The Terrorist, 1994)"," Eish Alghorab (Mushroom)", El Taarna El Akhira, (The last Stab). In television, he directed " Harat El Awans (District of Spinisters, 2006) and " El Mahata (The Station, 2007). His works as a director of photographer include 130 long feature films and 10 documentaries. He worked with the most famous directors in the Egyptian Cinema like Samir Saif in Alghool (The Beast, 1983) - Atef Altayab in El Badroum (The Basement, 1987) - Nader Jalal in (48 hours in Israel, 1999) and Omar Abdel Aziz in (Granita, 2001). He won the Golden Creative Award for best lightening and cinematography from the Television & Radio Festivals in 2003 and 2005. © 2007 LINKdotNET, All Rights Reserved Developed by Link Development, a LINKdotNET subsidiary.