EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based world administration and manufacturing firm 75East has signed Egyptian director Karim Shaaban, who’s at the moment in manufacturing on his new function 6 Days in Cairo.
He’s the newest signing in a rising roster of expertise on the 75East books since its launch final December with a deal with SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa), alongside the likes of Jordanian Oscar-nominee Bassel Ghandour (Theeb) and Egyptian Palme d’Or-nominee Abu Bakr Shawky (Yomeddine).
Shaaban most just lately directed the quick movie I Don’t Care if the World Collapses, starring Egyptian famous person Salma Abu Deif as an bold advertizing producer whose path crosses an actor enthusiastic about touchdown his first position in a commercials shoot.
The quick premiered this yr on the Cleveland Worldwide Movie Competition, adopted by a US Oscar-qualifying pageant tour together with Palm Springs Worldwide ShortFest and Nashville Movie Competition. The movie was self-produced, written by Wael Hamdy, and shot by Beshoy Rosefelt.
New function 6 Days sees Shaaban direct rising Egyptian stars Ahmed Malek and Aya Samaha as two former highschool sweethearts, whose likelihood reunion years later assessments whether or not love can survive the passage of time.
Malek’s many credit embrace Netflix Unique The Swimmers, Egyptian hit Sheikh Jackson, and Mohamed Diab’s Conflict. Samaha is greatest recognized for her roles in hit Egyptian Netflix sequence Paranormal and Shahid exhibits El Soffara and Omar Effendi. 6 Days is produced by Ahmed Fahmy’s Sea Cinema Productions.
Cairo-based Shaaban has established himself as some of the sought-after promoting administrators within the Arab world over the previous decade, and he continues to work throughout movie, commercials, music movies, and images.
Early cinema works embrace quick movie Nightshift (2020), which world premiered at Cleveland Worldwide Movie Competition and went viral on YouTube, racking up greater than 700,000 views to this point.
Additional abilities represented by 75East embrace Mahdi Fleifel (To A Land Unknown); Amjad Al Rasheed (Inshallah A Boy); Firas Khoury (Alam, Maradona’s Legs); Faris Alrjoob (The Pink Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry); Nay Tabbara (Ebb & Move); Yassmina Karajah (Rupture), and Mayar Al Nouri, creator and director of Self Modulation (Tarteeb Khass), a brand new Arabic-language Amazon Originals restricted sequence.
