Mamoun hassan biography channel
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About
Mamoun at the National Film and Television School. Photograph: Lee Evans
Mamoun Hassan is a screenwriter, producer, director, editor and critic as well as an international film teacher. He has written, directed and edited a number of award-winning films in the course of his career while holding a number of influential positions in British film production organisations.
Mamoun’s unique gift is his ability to transfer his understanding of cinema as an international medium using practical analysis of the work of the world’s greatest directors. He is guest lecturer of choice at several of the world’s top national and international film schools.
Based in the UK, Mamoun has a string of directing, producing, editing and screen-writing credits on films made in Britain and Latin America. He produced the prize-winning feature film, No Surrender, and co-produced Machuca, Chile’s most successful film, which won numerous Latin American and European awards. He also wrote the s
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Three years ago, the BBC polled critics across the world to identify the greatest 100 American Movies, followed bygd Films of the 21st century and Comedies.
Finally, the spotlight fell on ‘Foreign’ films – those not made in the English language. 209 critics from 43 countries took part.
The results were not a surprise to Mamoun, who has given and recorded masterclasses on and introductions to many of the films on the list, particularly the first three.
Above all, Mamoun has given masterclasses on The Seven Samurai in many different countries: from Sydney in Australia to Zimbabwe in Africa; the UK, Greece, Denmark, Norway and Bosnia in Europe; Mumbai in India; Colombo in Sri Lanka; Havana in Cuba; Santiago in Chile, South America; and in California, where the masterclass was given in three different venues (UCLA Extension, CalArts, The Psychoanalytic Centre for California).
A 65-minute utgåva (edited from a four-hour session) was recorded for Channel 4’
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Mamoun Hassan is a screenwriter, producer, director, editor and critic as well as an international film teacher. He has written, directed and edited a number of award-winning films in the course of his career while holding a number of influential positions in British film production organisations.
He produced the prize-winning feature film, No Surrender, and co-produced Machuca, Chile’s most successful film, which won numerous Latin American and European awards. He also wrote the screenplay of La Buena Vida, winner of a Spanish Goya and the premier prize at Huelva in 2008.
Career highlights
From 1971 to 1974, as Head of Production at the British Film Institute , he led and implemented a policy of feature film-making with the backing of Sir Michael Balcon and Sir Dennis Forman. During his two and a half years at the BFI he backed some of Britain’s most distinctive and original films, including Bill Douglas’s Childhood Trilogy, Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s Winsta