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- Nadine Asmar is a Lebanese director and screenwriter. She got her Bachelor's degree in Cinema and TV (Audiovisual) from the Lebanese University - Fine Arts Institute II and her Master's degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Pantheon-Sorbonne University - Paris 1.
L'aveugle de la Cathédrale / The Blind of the Cathedral (2015) is her graduation short film, a first-time adaptation of a novel by Farjallah Haik (the rights were obtained from Haïk's family). The film won 11 international awards including Best Short Fiction Film, Best Directing, Best Actor and Best Actress, and was nominated for over 40 awards and selected in over 50 international film festivals.
She has been congratulated on several academic short films, including Dans mon cocon (2014) which was screened as a special jury mention during the Première Journée Cinématographique des étudiants de l'INBA II à l'Université Libanaise (2015) and Yingtai (2014), a Chinese short film inspired from a traditional legend.
Barke Lyom... / Perhaps Today (2017) is her second short film which was produced in 2017. The film won 7 awards in France, Spain, the UK, Morocco, Denmark & Philippines, and got over 30 nominations including the Asian American International Film Festival's Excellence in Short Filmmaking Award and Duhok International Film Festival's Golden Leaf.
Nadine is also a co-founder and producer at MovieTailor Pictures, a Beirut-based film production company. She's a Talents Beirut (Berlinale Talents International) and Beirut-Locarno Industry Academy International 2019 alumna and an Impact Lab 2022 fellow.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Source Itself
- Her university cinematography exercise Dans mon cocon (2014) short film, co-directed with a colleague, was featured in We Are Temporary - Mark Roberts' music video of You Can Now Let Go single released in December 2015. The musician watched the 2014 short film on Vimeo and found the content suitable for his new song. He worked on re-editing the footage and adding some visual effects to it, then uploaded the music video on Youtube.
- The dream is important, the actual achievement as well. I hope I can carry out these projects and always have new ideas, because as long as we have dreams, we are alive and we are able to progress, to mature, to grow and change the world, modestly through cinema and art.
- Don't wait your whole life to do what you wanna do. Just go ahead & create your own adventure!
- I believe you can be creative without losing your cinematic identity.
- I would like to make films that reflect the Lebanese society, to testify, to speak out and to also have good relations with the audience, whatever it is, Lebanese or not. To always go back to the local and the universal. But I want my origin, the origin of the filmmaker, to be seen.
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