SELECTED NEWS / SCREENINGS


-----2011----

UNTIL MORNING



A FILM



MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Imagine Fund to develop my filmmaking practice, UofM


----2010----

A FILM



Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt
Special Jury Prize for my script Until Morning, "the most innovative and courageous script"

University of Minnesota, USA
Imagine Fund

Doha Film Institute, Qatar
Special Guest Panelist Pitch Your Project Workshop, with Isabelle Fauvel, Mira Nair, Cat Villiers, and Joe Pichirallo


Retrospective, Minneapolis, MN
The Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, Focus on a Filmmaker: The Films of Hisham Bizri


SONG FOR THE DEAF EAR



----2009----

KYOTO, JAPAN
A FILM
The 13th Kyoto International Symposium on Visual-Media Practices, Japan


VILLA MEDICI, ROME, ITALY
Song For the Deaf Ear


NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Cabaret, American Academy in Rome: December 2, 2009
(featuring performances by Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed among others, and film and video by Hisham Bizri among others)


ROME, ITALY
Curator, Cineform

Awarded the John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for 2008-2009
http://www2.cla.umn.edu/news/college_news/BizriRomePrize.htm


SCREENINGS
The Films of Hisham Bizri, Anthology Film Archives
Kyoto Film Expo 2009


----2008----

ROME, ITALY

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL
Awarded the 2008 McKnight Filmmaking Fellowship from
The Independent Feature Project


AVIGNON, FRANCE
ASMAHAN has been selected for second edition of
Corto del Med film festival


AVIGNON, FRANCE
VERTICES has been selected for second edition of
Corto del Med film festival


MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL
Grant-in-Aid of Research
Artistry and Scholarship Program
University of Minnesota TC


SINGAPORE
Jury Member, International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA)
http://www.isea2008.org


----2007----

MADRID, SPAIN (11/30/2007)
Intro and Q & A of Hisham Bizri's film ASMAHAN
Reina Sofía National Museum Art Centre, Madrid, Spain
http://www.museoreinasofia.es/portada/portada.php


MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/06/2007)
Lecture by Professor Hisham Bizri,
EYES SEE NOTHING BUT THE STARS: Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmóniák
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=3999


MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (9/13/2007)
Filmmaking master class with Béla Tarr
The University of Minnesota,
The Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature


MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (9/7/2007)
Lecture, THE FILMS OF INGMAR BERGMAN
Oak Street Cinema, Minneapolis, MN http://www.mnfilmarts.org/oakstreet/calendar_detail.php?id=676&day=2007-09-09"


MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (4/6/2007)
Awarded a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in the 83rd annual U.S. and Canadian competition sponsored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This is the most Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to university faculty since 1982. [more]

(pdf of Guggenheim fellows).


MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (2/4/2007)
Lecture, COSMIC TENSIONS IN BELA TARR'S SATANTANGO
Minnesota Film Arts, Oak Street Cinema
http://www.mnfilmarts.org/oakstreet/


MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/27/2007)
A Video Interview with Kenneth Anger
Downtown Minneapolis
http://ecc.umn.edu/MN%20Film%20History/anger.html


MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/26/2007)
An Evening with Kenneth Anger
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=3625