Alaa Mosbah

Alaa Mosbah

Date of Birth:

Nov 11, 1988

Place of Birth:

Egypt

Alaa Mosbah is an Egyptian filmmaker and author. He has produced the Electric Press Kit for "Paranormal", Netflix first original Egyptian TV series. He was a Fulbright grantee at Columbia College Chicago in 2017. He graduated from the American University in Cairo in 2010, with a major in Communications and Media Arts and minor in Film. He got the International Critics Jury Prize (FIPRESCI), from Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2012 for the short film "Café Regular, Cairo", produced by him and directed by Ritesh Batra. He was the line producer/ second unit director of "What Comes Around" documentary premiered at Berlinale Panorama 2018. He was nominated for Robert Bosch award at Berlin International Film Festival in 2014 for his documentary "Extra Time" and in 2015 for his short fiction film "Once Every Week". His first feature narrative script "Cairo, earlier" has participated in Rawi scriptwriters' lab 2013. He has directed and produced many TV documentaries for Al Jazeera English including "Ultras", "Medicine for Sale" and "Standards of Beauty". His short film "Tariq" was selected for the Arab Short Film Competition at Doha Tribeca Film Festival 2012. In 2011, He worked with Scandar Copti, an Oscar nominated filmmaker, and Ritesh Batra, a BAFTA nominated filmmaker, in the Education Department of Doha Film Institute to produce a 50-one-minute shorts in nine different Arab capitals.

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