Tamer El Said
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Tamer El Said (born 1972) is an Egyptian filmmaker.
He wrote, produced, and directed numerous films, including Take Me (2004), an award-winning documentary about five friends who unintentionally became political prisoners in Morocco, and On a Monday, a young married couple who rediscovered their relationship.
In the Last Days of the City was shot in Cairo, Berlin, Baghdad, and Beirut, and premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.
He is co-founder of many non-profit organisations in Cairo, including the Cimatheque Alternative Film Centre in Mosireen and Zero Production.
Early life
Tamer El Said was born in Cairo, Egypt, in August 1972. Ahmed El Said, his father, wrote for the 1970s' popular children's radio show A Song and A Tale. El Said was detained by State Security for six weeks after being involved in a student protest against the Egyptian troops' participation in the First Gulf War in spring 1991. He studied film Directing at the University of Cinema, graduating 1998 with Honourable Mention, and receiving his diploma in 2002.
After graduating, he spent a few years as 1st AD on some of Egypt's top feature films before directing high-end commercials while teaching at both the High Institute of Cinema and the Actor's Studio in Cairo. In 2002, he took on the role of Senior Producer and Artistic Consultant for Nile Productions, then moving to Dubai's Hot Spot. The company grew dramatically during his time as Senior Producer at Hot Spot, producing 250 documentaries in 58 countries and receiving numerous international awards.
Career
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, and later started filming a long-term project about the village of Aytaroun which was destroyed in the 2006 war in Lebanon. In 2008, El Said began working on his first feature film In the Last Days of the City. Shot in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut and Berlin, the film is on the lives of a group of friends from Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon have been shaped by their cities of birth and the instability of their region.
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 currently in the process of setting up, with Khalid Abdalla and others, Cimatheque, an alternative film centre 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.
El-Said is member of National Culture Policy Group, an initiative launched in 2009, with the aim to propose a plan of action to better organise cultural endeavours in Egypt.