The 8th Showreel - Effat Students Film Festival 2021

DEAN, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS; PROFESSOR

Dean Allyson Green is a choreographer, visual artist, curator and arts educator.

Dean Green is a full professor in the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Art and Public Policy, with an affiliation in the Department of Dance, and will continue to teach in both areas. From 2012 to 2014, she was the Associate Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts Institute of Performing Arts (IPA) and oversaw all of the performing arts departments, as well as Art and Public Policy and Tisch Open Arts. She began shaping the vision for the IPA with new programming ideas for cross-department collaborations and artists-in-residence, and continued Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell’s decade-long plans for a new performing arts center. She served as the Tisch Global Dean for Curriculum, and led the integration of Tisch study abroad programs into NYU’s global network. Dean Green, in collaboration with the departments, developed new curriculum initiatives that allow Tisch students to study within NYU’s global locations. She also served on the university-wide Space Priorities Working Group and the Distinguished Teaching Award committee.

Associate Professor at Tisch School of Arts, at New York University

Carol Dysinger directed the documentary "Camp Victory, Afghanistan," the first in her trilogy about Afghanistan post 9/11. It premiered in competition at South By South West 2010, and played at a numerous festival including MOMA Doc Fortnight, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Movies that Matter at the Hague. It played on Public Television in the States, in Europe and Japan.

Prior to directing docs, Prof. Dysinger edited many documentaries and features, including "DEADLINE" for Big Mouth Productions (Sundance, and NBC), RAIN for Lola Films, M.Scorsese Executive Producer (Sundance, Venice International) SANTITOS for Springall Pix, John Sayles Exec (Sundance, Guadalajara, San Sebastian) and PUNK (Warners) which was a finalist for a national Emmy. She edited "Rock the Casbah" for the

As a screenwriter in Los Angeles she co-wrote several scripts for Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Sam Goldwyn Productions, and A CHRISTMAS STAR with Fred Gwyn and Ed Asner for Disney. Currently she is an advisor at the Doc Lab at Sundance FIlm Institute -- and runs workshops around the world on hybrid filmmaking.

Academic director, the Area Head of Production Supervision for Tisch School of Arts, at New York University

Christina works as a production manager, line producer, and producer on numerous short films, features, documentaries, commercials, and music videos, including for the Grammy Award winning group, The Black Eyed Peas. Several of her films have played at Sundance, Tribeca, and HBO. She also co-produced two feature length documentaries, MY UNCLE BERNS, which aired on HBO, and 761st, an independent documentary about the first African American tank battalion to enter combat in WWII. More recently, she served as supervising producer on Season 2 of IN BETWEEN MEN, a web-based TV series. She is also a member of the Producers Guild of America.

Fatima Albanawi is an internationally acclaimed actress, filmmaker, and writer from Saudi Arabia. This multi-hyphenate creative who aspires to deepen the conversation between social impact and the arts is the founder of The Other Story Project - Jeddah city’s public space mover and shaker since 2015. The project has collected almost 5000 real life stories from strangers and packaged many into art productions, such as the short film "A Blink of an Eye". From the first touring Biennale in the world, inaugurated in Buenos Aires, to Palais de Tokyo in Paris, AlBanawi travels locally and internationally to perform human stories.

AlBanawi received a master’s in Theological Studies from Harvard University while focusing her scholarly writings and research on Women Representation and Arab Identity in both film and literature.

Indeed AlBanawi, the actress, is no less important. In 2016, she became internationally recognized for her debut in the award winning Saudi feature film, Barakah Meets Barakah, which helped pave the way for Saudi Arabian cinema. She continues to act as an instinctive response to her passion for the profession with an incentive to reshape the public narrative about human relations. She starred in "Bashar" series, "A Blink of an Eye" short, "Going South", a short film that made it to the renowned Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. She made a special appearance in "Roll’em" feature film, "Om AlQalayed" series (a Shahid Original), and most recently in Netflix's up and coming "Paranormal" Egyptian series. She is currently filming "Champions" feature film.

Hind Al-Fahd, a Saudi filmmaker from Hail, entered the world of directing films in 2012, and directed three short films: “Three Brides and Kite” in 2012, “Back Seat” in 2013, and “Basta” in 2015. He won The latter is the Gulf Muhr Award for Short Film as Best Gulf Short Film at Dubai Film Festival in 2015, and the Short Narrative Film Award at the Youth Film Festival in Jeddah in 2016.

She participated in TV directing, so she directed two episodes of the “Filter” series, and she was chosen as a jury for the Student Film category at the Saudi Film Festival 2017.

She has also directed several television episodes. Her recent work in progress, “Sharshaf” won the production grant from Red Sea Film Festival.

Maha Al-Saati is a Saudi filmmaker, university assistant professor and graduate of Simon Fraser University who has taught both in Vancouver, Canada and Saudi Arabia. She is a TIFF filmmaker lab 2020 alum, and recipient of the Share Her Journey award. Her style is experimental and says to be inspired by 90s MTV music videos. Her research covers the representation of architectural spaces, education through the use of film, and the influence of religion and culture on media.

Her film Hair has won the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) residency award of 2021 and has played at Fantastic Fest and Slamdance Film Festival. Her feature film "A Trip to Disney" is about a woman who travels from Saudi to Disney World, Florida only to find out she is abandoned by her prince. The film has received development support from El Gouna Film Festival, and was selected for TIFF Filmmaker Lab, and for the upcoming development programmes at Malmo Arab Film Festival (MAFF), and selected for the inaugural Red Sea Lodge of Red Sea film festival.

Shahad Ameen was born and raised in Jeddah. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Video Production and Film Studies from the University of West London, and also holds a degree in Screenwriting.

Her films include 'Our Own Musical' and 'Leila’s Window' (2011), which showed at the Gulf Film Festival and was named Best Film at the Saudi Film Festival, and 'Eye & Mermaid' (2013), which premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival and was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Stockholm Film Festival, and was awarded Best Arab Short in the Emirates Film Competition and Best Cinematography at the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival in 2014.

Her last film “Scales,” has been selected to represent the kingdom for Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Academy Awards (Oscars).

Yasser Madani is a Visual Artist and Illustrator, with ten years and more worth of experience in Concept Artist, and Character Design. He excels in many Digital Art software used in the Animation and Media industry. He has skillfully obtained Animation and Storyboarding skills working cooperatively with renowned Japanese Studios and famous Media personalities’ Animation projects across the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Yasser has been continuously giving to the artistic community through a set of workshops and panels in Arts and Characters, thriving through sharing his artistic ventures to the local and international initiatives and communities of Artists and Animators alike.