Ahmed Rashwan

Egyptian film director, script writer and producer. He made many short films, documentaries before made his first feature length film (Basra). He promoted for independent cinema since his graduation from Cairo Film Institute in 1994, and has produced many of his short films independently. He has also co-authored a book about Arab Independent Cinema in 2002 and other book about documentary filmmaker Samir Ouf. He was the executive producer and director for many documentaries produced exclusively for Al-Jazeera Channel. He worked as executive producer solely on several productions for Arab and Foreigners production companies working in Egypt. He participated as a jury members in many short and documentary film festivals