Haitham Al-Khamissi

An Egyptian producer, film director and music composer, born in Baghdad, Iraq at 1977. Studied filmmaking at the Higher Institute of Cinema, Academy of Arts, Cairo. Since 1996, worked as a producer, director, editor, sound designer and music composer produced and directed a lot of TV commercials and documentaries, also composed a lot of original soundtracks for features, documentaries, TV series, musicals, plays, festivals and ceremonies. His first documentary production (Jews of Egypt) at 2013, has sparked a blaze of publicity and raised a big social and political controversial in Egypt and the Middle East, not to mention his participation in more than 15 international film festivals and winning two awards. Also his masterpiece puppets TV show (Zaza and Gargir), which he produced, directed and music composed, has achieved great success for six consecutive seasons in Egypt.