Karim El Hakim

Karim EL HAKIM est un réalisateur métis égyptien-suédois qui a fait des films qui ont été projetés à Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand, Berlin, Ismailia, Newport Beach, et New York ainsi que des festival indépendants internationals, et diffusés sur les chaines de télé telles que BBC, HBO, Sundance, History Channel et Al Jazeera.

Il a co-réalisé avec Omar SHARGAWI en 2011 1/2 révolution (Golden Award dans la catégorie longs métrages au 8ème Festival International du Film Documentaire Al Jazeera 2012).

Karim El Hakim
senior producer / director / d.o.p.

Karim EL HAKIM is a half Egyptian / half Swedish award-winning filmmaker who has worked on films exhibited at the Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand, Berlin, Ismailia, Newport Beach, and New York International Independent Film Festivals, and broadcast on the BBC, HBO, Sundance, History Channel, and Al Jazeera television channels. Most recently, Karim was the Director of Photography for Al Jami3a (The University), a one hour, 15 episode dramatic TV series set to debut winter 2011 on Arab satellite channel MBC 4. Previous to that, Karim was a cinematographer on My Trip to Al Qaeda (2010), Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary that chronicles fundamentalist Islam’s rise to power. Karim was also a contributing editor on Jehane Noujaime’s critically acclaimed documentary, Control Room (Magnolia Pictures, 2004), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. Karim also produced and shot many internationally award-winning Egyptian short fiction films including Fisheye (2007), Miraculum (2006), and House of Flesh (2005) which earned him the Egyptian State prize for Best Cinematography, 2006. He studied Art and the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University (BA’91) and is currently based in Cairo.

Source:
www.prophecyfilms.net/prophecyfilms.net/karim.html