LIVE: GFF honors renowned filmmakers Abdel Sayed, Bouchocha

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Thu, 20 Sep 2018 - 07:52 GMT

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Yousry Nasrallah and Daoud Abdel Sayed - Egypt Today.

Yousry Nasrallah and Daoud Abdel Sayed - Egypt Today.

CAIRO - 20 September 2018: The Egyptian veteran filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah granted the Creative Achievement Award to iconic Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed.

'' I would thank El Gouna Film Festival for such a great honour'' Daoud Abdel Sayed sayed said after receiving his award. Abdel Sayed said that Egyptian cinema still needs a lot of work.

El Gouna Film Festival operation manager Boushra gave the Creative Achievement Award to the renowned Tunisian producer Dorra Bouchocha. '' I thank Intishal Al Tamimi the festival head, Boushra and all the festival team for such an honor'' Bouchocha said.

Bouchocha explained that she started her cinematic career since she was 17 years old as a volunteer in Carthage International film festival.

Abi Rashed presented on stage the jury members of the festival three competitions among them were the Egyptian stars Mona Zaki who is the jury member of the feature competition and Ahmed Malek who is the jury member of the short movies competition.

Intishal Al Tamimi said that the opening ceremony movie will be a french one.

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