FILM ACTIVITIES

2011

• Selected for the 2011 Script Station, 61st Berlin International Film Festival
• Member of the Program Committee for the 10th IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2011), to be held October 5-8, 2011 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• UNTIL MORNING, a feature film In-Development. This is a moving drama set in today's Beirut, Lebanon. The story chronicles the passage of three couples through the city the day before Christmas Eve. Writer/Director: Hisham Bizri

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2010

• Winner of the 2010 Special Jury Prize, 34th Cairo International Film Festival

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2009

• Cineform - Curator (more info)

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2004 - 2008

• Film Collaborative - Founding Director (fc.umn.edu)
• E-Center - Director (ecc.umn.edu)
• AIF - Co-founder and Academic/Production Director (aif-film.org)
• The Essential Cinema of Peter Kubelka - Curator (more info)
• Cinema and Society in the Arab world - conference and film festival Co-curator (hishambizri.com/arabfilmconf.html)

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2003-2004

• UC Davis - Head of Time-Based Arts (http://artstudio.ucdavis.edu)

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2000-2003

• Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT - fellow in digital filmmaking (cavs.mit.edu)
• Experimental Films by Arab Women Filmmakers - curator (www.coolidge.org/balagan/arab_women_spring2003.html)

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1999-2000

• KNUA - visiting professor of filmmaking (www.knua.ac.kr/new2005/eng/about/greeting.asp)

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1994-1995

• LAU - Lecturer in film and video (www.lau.edu.lb)

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1991

• Production Assistant to Hungarian Filmmaker Miklós Jancsó on his feature film "Blue Danube Waltz" shot on location in Budapest

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1989

• Production Assistant to Chilean Filmmaker Raul Ruiz on his feature film "The Golden Boat" shot on location in New York City

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1989

• Assistant to Chilean Filmmaker Raul Ruiz on his installation "The Expulsion of the Moors from Spain" at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts