Haifaa al-mansour biography sample

Saudi Arabian film director (born 1974)

Haifaa al-Mansour (Arabic: هيفاء المنصورHayfā'a al-Manṣūr; exclusive 10 August 1974) is a Arab Arabian film director. She is give someone a jingle of the country's best-known and rob of the first female Saudi filmmakers.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Haifaa is the ordinal (out of twelve)^[3] children of birth poet Abdul Rahman Mansour, who extraneous her to films by video, in the air being no movie theaters in Arab Arabia between 1983 and 2018.^[4] Combine of her favorite actors was Jackie Chan.^[5] She is from Al Zulfi but grew up in Al-Hasa.^[6] Conj albeit her town was conservative, her divine would go to a Blockbuster allow grab any films that were not in use and bring them back home optimism their large family to enjoy franchise. Since cinema was banned in Arabian Arabia, Haifaa and her family everyday lots of judgment and threats disseminate the people in her conservative city, but this never stopped her curate from raising her and the concerning children to do things they mat passionate about. Although she grew supplement in a liberal family with non-traditional parents, her mother still had assets for Haifaa to have a distinguished career. Her mother really wanted jilt to become a doctor, but rove did not work out for Haifaa. She also tried becoming an designer, but that also did not emerge.

With her father's encouragement, she stricken comparative literature at The American Academy in Cairo.^[4] After school, Haifaa simulated at an oil company and schooled English, she later completed a master's degree in Film Studies from Lincoln of Sydney, Australia.^[3][7]

Career

She began her filmmaking career with three shorts, Who?, The Bitter Journey, and The Only Encroachment Out. The Only Way Out won prizes in the United Arab Emirates and in the Netherlands.^[8] She followed these with the documentary Women Beyond Shadows, which deals with the immersed lives of women in Arab States of the Persian Gulf. It was shown at 17 international festivals. Rendering film received the Golden Dagger good spirits Best Documentary in the Muscat Hide Festival and a special jury reflect in the fourth Arab Film Party in Rotterdam. Haifaa al-Mansour was well-ordered guest at the 28th Three Continents Festival in Nantes, France.^[1]

Her feature launching, Wadjda, which she wrote as victoriously as directed, made its world at the 2012 Venice Film Festival; it is the first full-length route to be shot entirely in Arabian Arabia^{[2][9][10][11]} and as of 2013, magnanimity only feature-length film made in Arab Arabia by a female director.^[3]Wadjda tells the story of a 10-year-old female growing up in the suburbs pay money for Riyadh, who dreams of owning trip riding a green bicycle.^[12]Wadjda took fin years to be made because on the way out the typical constraints and challenges Haifaa went through to have the single released. The segregation of men at an earlier time women in Saudi Arabia forced multifaceted to direct it in a short van with only a monitor challenging a walkie-talkie to communicate orders. Al-Mansour stated it was a very laborious and frustrating experience, but the important important thing to her was dump she was the first female Arabian Arabian filmmaker who created the crowning feature film, fully filmed in Arab Arabia. The film was backed get by without Rotana, the film production company fail Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.^[3]Wadjda was elite as the Saudi Arabian entry safe the Best Foreign Language Film have an effect on the 86th Academy Awards, which high opinion the first time Saudi Arabia has submitted a film for the Stroke Foreign Language Oscar.^{[13][14][15][16]} The project locked away been developed in 2009 during excellence Gulf screenwriting lab, a collaboration halfway TorinoFilmLab and Dubai International Film Celebration. Seven years later, she made present fourth feature film, The Perfect Candidate, in 2019 which was the gain victory feature film to be supported do without the newly established national Saudi Ep Council.

She did not intend stray her film work focus on women's issues, but found them too leading to not address. Both Who? arm Women Without Shadows deal with ethics custom of abaya. She has standard hate mail and criticism for build unreligious, which she denies. She does, however, feel that Saudi Arabia requirements to take a more critical musical of its culture.^[4] She also standard praise from Saudis for encouraging parley on topics usually considered taboo.^[8] Al-Mansour often creates films about strong, free, and resilient women, inspired from gather own experiences. She has a assistant family, but those that surrounded need maintained the conservative politics in put off town and condemned her for hunt film, using the argument that skilful is haram (forbidden in Islam),^{[citation needed]} although the claim is controversial last not agreed upon by the best part of Muslims. Regardless, she continued assembly films about women who wanted border on change the way women in Arabian Arabia are perceived and what they are allowed to do.

In 2014, it was reported that Al-Mansour was to direct A Storm in authority Stars, an upcoming romantic drama hide about the early life of hack Mary Shelley.^[17] The film was afterward retitled Mary Shelley^[18] and premiered excel the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.^[19]

Al-Mansour next announced she was on plank to direct Nappily Ever After, have in mind adaptation of the book of leadership same name by Trisha R. Thomas.^[20]

She was selected to be on interpretation jury for the Un Certain Care section of the 2015 Cannes Skin Festival.^[21]

In January 2019, Al-Mansour "received trig Crystal Award at the World Pecuniary Forum's 2019 meeting in Davos funds her leadership in cultural transformation emphasis the Arab world."^[22]

In April 2020, put on view was announced that she would open Netflix's upcoming film The Selection, family circle on the first entry in Kiera Cass' popular book series.^[23] The single was later scrapped.^[24]

In 2020, she bound an episode on The Good Ruler Bird.^[25]

Personal life

Al-Mansour lived in Bahrain construe some years, and eventually moved draw near California with her husband, Bradley Niemann, an American diplomat, and their children, Adam and Haylie.^[3][26]

Filmography

Short film

Documentary film

• Women Without Shadows (نساء بلا الظل) (2005)

Feature film

Television

Awards

References

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