Tamer El Said

Tamer El Said is an independent Egyptian filmmaker, writer and producer. El Said studied journalism at Cairo University and Film Directing at the High Institute of Cinema graduating in 1998 with honorable mention, and received his diploma in 2002. El Said worked as first assistant director on some of Egypt's bigger feature films, directed commercials, taught and worked as a producer for a number of production companies. Between 1994 and 2004, El Said wrote, produced and directed numerous award-winning shorts and documentaries including "On a Monday" (2004) and "Take Me" (2004). In 2006 he co-wrote the feature film "Ein Shams" (Eye of the Sun, 2008) with Ibrahim El Batout. In 2008, El Said began working on his first feature film "In the Last Days of the City". In 2007, El Said founded Zero Production, an independent production company in Cairo. Zero Production supports independent filmmakers in Cairo and the region whether directly producing, lending equipment or offering work space. El Said is in the process of setting up, with Khalid Abdalla and others, Cimatheque, an alternative film center that aims to offer services and space to help develop and incubate the independent film movement in Cairo through building networks, sharing resources and building an infra-structure for the alternative film platform.