Amir El-Shenawy

Amir El-Shenawy is an Egyptian documentary director and producer. He is best known his feature documentary debut, Kilo 64, which had its world premiere at the Cairo International Film Festival in 2018, earning nominations for both Best Arab Film and Best Artistic Contribution awards, and winning the First Feature Film prize from the National Festival for Egyptian Cinema. After studying journalism at the Danish School of Media in Denmark in 2011, Amir earned his BA from the American University in Cairo in 2013, majoring in Media Arts and double minoring in Film and Arab & Islamic Civilizations. He then received his MA in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths University, London, in 2017. A recipient of the Chevening Scholarship and a Fellow of Film Independent, Amir is also an alumnus of the Rotterdam Lab, a training workshop for the most promising young producers organized by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Given his achievements and expertise, El Shenawy has been invited to teach filmmaking courses at the American University in Cairo. Amir is currently working on his second feature documentary project, American Dream.