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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 13-16, 2010 The Park Record C-3 Sundance holds Rawi lab New filmmakers emerge during Joran gathering Submitted by the Sundance Institute LOS ANGELES, Calif - Artists from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories and Saudi Arabia participated in the sixth annual Rawi Screenwriters Lab run by the Royal Film Commission in consultation with Sundance Institute. An initiative of the Royal Film Commission of Jordan, the Rawi Screenwriters Lab was held from October 28 to November 1, as part of Sundance Institute Feature Film Program's International work in support of emerging filmmakers around the world. The five-day Lab is held in an eco-lodge in Wadi Feynan, Southern Jordan. The projects and participants selected for the 2010 Middle East Screenwriter's Lab are: Engi Wasef "The Beautiful Game" (Egypt) Mohamed Al Zayyat "Burying Mom" (Egypt) Mark Madini - "Drunk" (Jordan) Michael Malek Najjar "Farewell Beloved" (U.STLebanon) Basil Khalil and Maha Assal "A Gaza Weekend" (Palestinian Territories) Kanm Bensalah - "Red Olive Tree" (Algeria) Faiza Ambah - "A Reverence For Spiders" (Saudi Arabia) Nadia Eliewat - "Where To London" (Jordan) "The Beautiful Game " - Enji Wassef (Writer/ Director), Egyptian Ismail, also known as Ike, struggles to fit into two very different worlds - one is his Egyptian family's home and the other is his hometown of South London. Although Ike loves football and shows natural raw talent, his father, a devout Muslim, refuses to support him. Enji Wassef was born in Cairo, Egypt and received a BA Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in government with a minor in modern standard Arabic. She left investment banking to pursue an MFA from NYU Tlsch School of the Arts, where she wrote and directed award-winning short "Breathtaking Views." She also wrote and directed a documentary "Social Work." Her most recent film, "Marina of the Zabbaleen, has screened at film festivals around the world, including Dubai International, where it won the Silver Muhr Award for Best Documentary. "Burying Mom" - Mohamed El Zayyat (Writer/Director), Egypt A young Egyptian man in New York is charged with the task of burying his divorced mother without anyone's help or support back in his home country. What appears to be a simple task turns into an epic journey as he is met with obstacles at every turn whether it is the Egyptian bureaucracy, the traditional culture, the desert climate, or his own ignorance and lack of social finesse. Mohamed El Zayyat was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1980. He studied mass communication and advertising at university in Egypt and then attended a jazz performance workshop at Berklee College of Music in Boston. After working in advertising, Mohamed moved to New York to start his MA in filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. He has written and directed the short films "Bolbol Wei Zabayen" and "East West?" "East West," and co-directed "Waiting to Stand Up." "Drunk " - Mark Mardini (Writer/Director), Jordan A young American travels to Jordan to find a father he has not seen in over twenty years. Mark Mardini has been writing since 1997, when he graduated from Chapman University School of Film. In 2001, his script "Visionaries" was a quarter finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition. His award-winning short film "Roadkill" has screened at festivals around the country. "Farewell Beloved'* Michael Najjar (Writer/ Director), U.sA^ebanon "Farewell Beloved" is the story of the relationship between Mary Elizabeth Haskell and famous poet Gibran Kahlil Gibran as told through the eyes of Haskell, his longtime benefactor, editor, and lover. Michael Najjar is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles focusing on Arab American theatre and performance. He holds an MFA in directing from York University in Toronto and a BA in Theater from the University of New Mexico. In Summer 2010, he directed a staged reading of his new play "Talib" with Silk Road Theatre Project in Chicago. He is currently co-editing the first anthology of Arab American and Arab Canadian Drama. "A Gaza Weekend" - Basil Khalil (Writer/Director), Palestinian Territories/US, and Maha Assal (Writer) Palestinian Territories An outbreak of a mutant virus in Israel forces a quarantine from the international community. The only way out is through Gaza. New York businessman. Basil Khalil was born and raised in Nazareth, to a Palestinian father and an English-Irish mother. He has an MA in producing and script development from the Screen Academy Scotland in Edinburgh. Basil produced feature documentary "Replay Revenge" and a number of shorts, including the awardwinning film "Shooter." He currently lives in London, where he co-wrote a kids TV series for Al-Jazeera children's A French Bis fro 435.200.0260 channel and freelances on television production. Maha Assal graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a double MA in Arabic and English literature. She wrote the screenplay for the post-apocalyptic feature film "Existence" that is to shoot in Palestine, and has also directed a^iumber of shorts, including the award-winning film "Oranges." Maha lives with her two children and husband in Nazareth, where she also lectures in screenwriting and works as a script editor, "Red Olive Tree " - Karim Bensalah (Writer/Director), Algeria Ahmed Belmaki is a harki, an Algerian who served on the French side during the Algerian Independence War, living in France. When he is killed in a car accident, his restless soul causes him to come back from the dead to find his mother in Algeria. Karim Bensalah was born in Algeria in 1976. After spending his childhood in Algeria, Brazil, Haiti and Senegal, he went to study social sciences and philosophy in France. In 1998 Karim entered the London Film School, where he directed his first short "Constant Flow." He then made his short film "Fatima's Secret." In 2005 he directed a segment of "Paris La Metisse" with 15 other young directors. Karim has also directed short films with the group Collectif Tribudom, and created his own installation work.. "A Reverence for Spiders" - Faiza Ambah (Writer/ Director), Saudi Arabia Omar Metwally, an Egyptian cleric on a three-year assignment to run a mosque in Brooklyn, NY, faces multiple challenges to his beliefs, including a battle over the remains of a homeless young man he was kind enough to bury. His wife and daughters' rebel against Islamic prejudice and restrictions placed on women. Faiza Saleh Ambah is a Saudi filmmaker with a background in journalism based in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. She left her job as Gulf Correspondent for The Washington Post in 2009 to focus on filmmaking. She has recently completed a summer filmmaking program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is currently developing a comedy script. "Where to London " Nadia Eliewat (Writer/Director), Jordan When Saba, a 26-year-old Jordanian designer, travels to London to realize the perfect romantic relationship with a handsome young Jordanian surgeon, she discovers that his love is a sham. 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