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Home/People/Marwan Tarek
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Born
Sep 15, 1997
Age 28
Place of Birth
Alexandria, Egypt
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male

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Marwan Tarek

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Biography
Director / Writer Born in 1997. Marwan graduated from Victoria college, Alexandria in 2016 and studies fine arts at Alexandria university. He enrolled in his first short movie at the age of 10 in one of Bibliotheca Alexandrina's competitions, where he got introduced to people with common interests. Then he became one of the youngest filmmaking team in the country. He glowed up by executing Victoria college class'16 graduation video as an unpaid advertisement for Vodafone co. and it went viral all-over Egypt. Then he was technically adopted by the well known director Ahmed Al-Naggar and he worked professionally as an assistant director for 3 years His movie "Young people" won the 1st place in Ministry of Youth's film competition and got promoted with a scholarship to study mobile filmmaking in Tunisia. Trés Court International film festival selected his last film he directed about his school "The dark side of Victoria" to get screened in the opening ceremony. Selected as a jury with University doctors for the short film competition for school students at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina 2018 He directed the 1st documentary with the well known rapper Shahyn "The return of the fiercest type of hawks" after 4 years of absence. "Mama" is one of his most touching pieces, as he framed out his mother's struggles and sacrifitions. "Nevia" and "Qenawy" popped out from daily life's observing and situations para-analysis The short film "Qenawy" Awards : Best short documentary at Fistup FIlm Festival in California Best Cinematography award and nominated for the Best Directing at the GreyJo Festival in America Honorable Mention and Reached a finals and Student World Impact Film Festival Reached a finals at the SON OF A PITCH Festival in Italy ,He published a short film for the Internet only, “I Grew Up,” and it spread widely in Egypt and the Arab world He has various experiences in the field of music videos, where he directed “Muftares” by Shubra Al-General, Mahraganat singer, in cooperation with the music artist Solly, and then “Nazlet Samman” with music by “Al-Waili” and the rapper Karim Osama, which spread widely throughout Egypt, and after that he directed two music videos with Karim. Osama variants: “Al-Abyad” and “Loji”, win in the third edition of filmydesign festival “ audience award” for my film “Umm Al Dunya” .
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