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 characteristic 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 not too long ago directed the brief movie I Don’t Care if the World Collapses, starring Egyptian famous person Salma Abu Deif as an formidable advertizing producer whose path crosses an actor enthusiastic about touchdown his first function in a commercials shoot.
The brief premiered this 12 months on the Cleveland Worldwide Movie Competition, adopted by a US Oscar-qualifying competition 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 characteristic 6 Days sees Shaaban direct rising Egyptian stars Ahmed Malek and Aya Samaha as two former highschool sweethearts, whose likelihood reunion years later checks 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 finest 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 brief movie Nightshift (2020), which world premiered at Cleveland Worldwide Movie Competition and went viral on YouTube, racking up greater than 700,000 views thus far.
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 Purple 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.
