Heliopolis Film Screening

Egypt Mon 01-11-2010

Heliopolis Film Screening
Press Release

The American University in Cairo
Film Program
Department of Perfoming and Visual Arts

Invites you to the screening of the film Heliopolis. Discussion with the filmmaker Ahmad Abdalla and Actor Khaled Abol Naga will follow the screening.

Film Screening room (PO13)/ PVA Building AUC New Cairo.

"I wrote this film after a very hard phase of my life. After a sequence of unfortunate events, i developed a predilection towards seclusion and spent most of my time writing. I wrote "Heliopolis" in less than a month. I decided to produce it independently, with a crew of volunteers or one that would collaborate for a minimum wage. Several well-known actors liked the script and agreed to contribute without receiving any remuneration. We used HD cameras to shoot the film, and our locations were actual streets and apartments in the neighbourhoods of Heliopolis. Since i believed that any one can make their own film, no matter how much money or facilities they possess, i kept my budget as low as i can." Ahmad Abdalla

Wednesday November 3, 2010 at 6.30pm

For more information contact:

Film coordinators, tel 016.299.4357

e-mail estefanos.film@gmail.com / film@aucegypt.edu

pva@aucegypt.edu
tel 20.2.2615.1221

Posted By: Diana Achieng

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