Soad Shawky

An Egyptian film director, graduated from the High Cinema Institute in 1996. She obtained her Master and PHD and has been teaching at the institute for the past twenty five years. She directed six short films and four documentaries, which have participated in many international film festivals in Egypt, Germany, UK, Brazil, USA and France. Her short film "How Do You See Me" participated in many international film festivals, including Malmö Film Festival in Sweden, Beirut International Film Festival, and won the Best Short Film Award at the Alexandria International Film Festival in 2014, and Best Short Film at the Women's Festival at the Muscat International Film Festival 2014, and the Best Short Film Award At the Dhofar Annual Forum in Salalah-Oman 2014. She was selected as a jury member in the Documentary Film Competition at the Student Film Festival in Casablanca- Morocco in December 2019, and at the Medfilm Festival in Rome in 1999 and 2002 in the Student Film Department. She headed the National Film Center in Egypt from September 2019 to September 2020, and she's now fully dedicated to the preparation of her first long feature film.