May El Maraashly

A Fulbright Grant awardee who studied English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City, who has been writing and translating in 6 languages for various local and international platforms. Upon her return to Egypt, she completed a directing workshop entitled, "Messages among Women" under the auspices of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, aiming at empowering more female directors in the Arab World. Her one-minute short film for the workshop, "Amores", participated at the Cairo International Women's Film Festival in 2016. She has then graduated from the two-year Film and Television Diploma at the French University in Cairo. She has additionally joined several workshops in directing with directors like Dr. Ali Badrakhan and Dr. Samir Seif; cinematography with D.O.P. Ahmed Hussein; as well as two acting workshops with Starz and Calibre academies. She directed 4 short feature films, wrote 5; acted in 3 and directed 1 documentary.