The Knowledge - Mai Masri
The Knowledge is a series of interviews with leading screen industry figures, conducted by experienced film journalist Andrew Urban and published via the CSB blog.
Mai Masri - biography
Mai Masri is a Palestinian filmmaker with a Bachelor’s degree in film from San Francisco State University. She has directed, photographed and edited several award-winning documentaries, which have been broadcast on more than 100 television stations around the world including BBC, Channel 4, PBS, France 2, SBS, YLE, MBC and NHK. Her work includes the multi award-winning films Frontiers of Dreams and Fears, Children of Shatila and Hanan Ashrawi: A Woman of Her Time. With her husband, filmmaker Jean Chamoun, Mai established the production companies Nour Productions and MTC.
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Filmmaking as a passion and a business
- An early exposure to film triggered a strong interest
- No local film industry - had to learn how to handle all aspects of filmmaking
- Driven by issues - but treating filmmaking as a business
- First BBC commission was breakthrough – gave me international exposure
- Political environment difficult
- Asia Pacific Screen Awards - provide visibility, a new audience, new windows
- Objective - to make money, but without compromising
- New project is a fiction film, after lots of docos
- As a producer for husband’s film - learnt the dangers of money going into administration rather than on to the screen
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