With an in depth resume at hand, the Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker, author, and director, Dania Bdeir have earned many awards for her quite a few works.
Impressed by her Lebanese roots, Dania displays in her works the numerous points of Lebanese tradition and social points.
At the moment a member of Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Bdeir has a B.A. in Graphic Design from the American College of Beirut (AUB) and an MFA in directing from the Tisch Faculty of the Arts, New York College, the place she was granted a full scholarship in her third 12 months.
Her filmmaking profession started after her graduate thesis movie, In White, acquired the Spike Lee Manufacturing Fund. It was additionally world-premiered on the Clermont-Ferrand, in addition to BFI London, Uppsala, along with 30 different festivals world wide.
In 2019, Bdeir was a Berlinale Expertise and took part within the Quick Movie Station along with her movie, Warsha, which starred Mohammad Khansa. Khansa performed the position of a migrant employee who finds a haven to showcase his secret on prime of one among Beirut’s tallest cranes.
The movie additionally premiered on the 2022 Sundance Movie Competition and received the Jury Prize for the Greatest Worldwide Fiction Quick.
Warsha has additionally seized a pre-purchase broadcast cope with the main European tv channel, ARTE, and has received 29 awards to this point, together with George Lucas Award (Grand Prix) award on the 2022 Quick Shorts Movie Competition & Asia.
Extra lately, Warsha additionally snatched the Greatest Quick Movie Ouray Worldwide Movie Competition (OIFF) and the Greatest Movie award on the Quick OUT Competition and was chosen in over 60 festivals, together with SXSW, Rotterdam, and Palm Springs Shortfest, amongst others.
Now growing PIGEON WARS, Dania Bdeir has acquired financing for her mission from Telefilm Canada and was chosen for the Torino Movie Lab x DFI Hezaya Screenwriting Lab, Cine Qua Non-Storylines, and Le Groupe Ouest.
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