Nesma Zazou

Nesma Zazou is an Egyptian film writer-director with ten years of experience in the media and film industry. She holds her Master degree in Film Directing at Met Film School in London. She wrote and directed 6 short films and 8 short documentaries. Her short film "Sayeda" won the best film award at the national Egyptian film festival 2018. It's selected and screened in the BBC Arabic film festival in London, Cannes short film corner, Clermont Ferrand, Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York and other local and regional festivals. She was a speaker at the BBC world cultural front line panel discussion in London about the golden era in Arab cinema 2018 and in TedX women 2015. Nesma teaches documentary at MSA university in Cairo. She's a member of the UK initiative, "Inspire Egypt". At the age of 17, She started working as a freelance journalist. She directed and produced more than a hundred news reports and features, documentaries, music videos and online interviews. She runs workshops in film directing, acting, directing actors and drama therapy. She develops her first feature film, inspired by true events and stories of people she's been meeting for a year.