Hisham Bizri

Rome Prize, 2008 Hisham Bizri (Arabic: هيشام البزري) is a film director, writer, and producer born in Beirut, Lebanon.Bizri began working in film in the US with filmmaker Raoul Ruiz.His industry experience includes work as Producer at Future TV (Beirut), Creative Director at Orbit Communications Company (Beirut), and President & Creative Director of Levantine Films (NYC).His students have gone on to study film at NYU, USC, AFI, UCLA, La Fémis (Paris) and FAMU (Prague).[1] Bizri's films have been shown in international venues including Sundance,[2] Cannes, Berlin, Oberhausen, Moscow, and Abu Dhabi film festivals as well as the Louvre, Institut du Monde Arabe, Cinémathèque Française, Centre Pompidou, MoMa, and Anthology Film Archives (NYC).
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