EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based international administration and manufacturing firm 75East has signed Lebanese writer-director Nay Tabbara, whose quick movie Ebb & Circulation gained the Scholar Visionary Award at its Tribeca world premiere in June.
Impressed by actual occasions and the political instabilities of the early 2000s in Lebanon, the quick follows 14-year-old Loulwa whose plans for a secret date behind her household’s again take an sudden flip when a bomb explodes in Beirut.
The quick adopted its Tribeca success with a powerful Academy-Qualifying competition run, screening in competitors at festivals together with Palm Springs Worldwide ShortFest, IndyShorts Worldwide Movie Competition, HollyShorts Movie Competition, and Nashville Movie Competition.
Nay Tabbara is a multi-hyphenate Lebanese filmmaker based mostly between New York Metropolis and Beirut.
She gained expertise on set, working as an assistant director in her native Lebanon for the likes of Ziad Doueiri and Mounia Akl, earlier than shifting to the U.S. to earn a MFA in Filmmaking diploma from the NYU Tisch Faculty of the Arts’ Graduate Movie program.
Tabbara’s earlier quick movie Frayed Roots world premiered on the Raindance Movie Competition in 2020 and went on to display screen in a number of different festivals.
She can also be a talented editor, co-editing Punter, a brief movie directed by Jason Adam Maselle, which acquired a Particular Point out within the Junior Jury Quick Movie Competitors at its Locarno Movie Competition world premiere in August.
Her different enhancing credit embody the function movie Stockade, directed by Eric McGinty, which world premiered in 2023 in competitors on the Woodstock Movie Competition.
Tabbara is at present educating enhancing as a visiting professor at Tisch, along with serving to run and coordinate this system’s Submit Manufacturing division in addition to growing her personal tasks.
75East, was launched final December by former Mister Smith gross sales govt Antone Saliba (initially below the title of Untamed Expertise, which was rebranded) with a deal with the SWANA area, encompassing South West Asia and North Africa.
Additional skills on its books embody Abu Bakr Shawky (Yomeddine, Hajjan); Bassel Ghandour (Theeb, The Alleys); Amjad Al Rasheed (Inshallah A Boy); Firas Khoury (Alam, Maradona’s Legs); Faris Alrjoob (The Crimson Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry); Yassmina Karajah (Rupture) and Mahdi Fleifel (To A Land Unknown).
