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American filmmaker
Hisham Bizri |
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| Education | Boston University, Harvard University, New York University, University of Illinois at Chicago |
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| Occupation(s) | Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter, Curator, Professor |
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| Awards | Bogliasco Fellowship, 2019
Rome Prize, 2008
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007 |
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Hisham Bizri (Arabic: هيشام البزري) is a film director, writer, and producer born in Beirut, Lebanon. Bizri began working in film in the US with filmmaker Raoul Ruiz. Bizri has directed over 25 shorts and one feature film. His industry experience includes work as Producer at Future TV (Beirut), Creative Director at Orbit Communications Company (Beirut), and President & Creative Director of Levantine Films (NYC). He previously taught at Brown University, the University of Minnesota, MIT, UC Davis, NYU, Boston University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and in Lebanon, Korea, Japan, Ireland, and Jordan. His students have gone on to study film at NYU, USC, AFI, UCLA, La Fémis (Paris) and FAMU (Prague).[1]
Bizri's films have been shown in international venues including Sundance,[2] Cannes, Berlin, Oberhausen, Moscow, and Abu Dhabi film festivals as well as the Louvre, Institut du Monde Arabe, Cinémathèque Française, Centre Pompidou, MoMa, and Anthology Film Archives (NYC). He is recipient of awards from the McKnight, LEF, Jerome, and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bogliasco Foundation, and American Academy in Rome, which awarded him the "Rome Prize" (FAAR 2009).[1]
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Title
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Length
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Format
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Notes
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| 1989
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The Dream
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7 minutes
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Super-8
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| 1989
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The Sun
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5 minutes
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Super-8
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| 1990
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The Third of May
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9 minutes
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16mm film
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| 1990
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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22 minutes
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16mm film
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| 1991
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The Leaves of a Cypress
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15 minutes
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Betacam SP
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| 1991
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Vertov's Valentine
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12 minutes
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Betacam SP
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| 1992
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Message from a Dead Man
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20 minutes
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16mm film
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| 1997
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Mitologies
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Stereoscopic Cinema
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| 1997
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Las Meninas
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Stereoscopic Cinema
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| 2002
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City of Brass
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24 minutes
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Betacam
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| 2002
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La Rencontre
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28 minutes
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DV
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Based on the short story "Emma Zunz" by Jorge Luis Borges.
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| 2002
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Chabrol á Biarritz
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23 minutes
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DV
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Interview with Claude Chabrol
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| 2005
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Vertices: Beirut.Dublin.Seoul
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32 minutes
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DV
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A film for three screens.
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| 2005
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Asmahan
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21 minutes
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35mm film
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| 2008
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Song for the Deaf Ear
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18 minutes
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16mm film/High-definition video
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Silent but for the last minute
- Festival Sercine, Aracaju (Sergipe), Brazil
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| 2010
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A Film
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8.32 minutes
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16mm film/High-definition video
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- Minneapolis-Saint Paul Film Festival
- Pesaro Film Festival 2012
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| 2012
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Sirocco
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18 minutes
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35mm film
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- Oberhausen International Short Film Festival selection for international competition 2012
- Sundance Film Festival selection in New Frontier Shorts American Competition 2013
- Twin Cities Arab Film Fest 2013
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| 2016
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Beneath the wide wide Heaven
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15 minutes
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35mm film
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- Oberhausen International Short Film Festival selection for the International Competition 2016
- 24th Curtas Vila do Conde (Portugal) International Film Festival selection for the Experimental Competition 2016
- 14th Festival Internacional Signos de la Noche 2016
- Award Winner: Best Editing. RAIIFA International Film Festival 2016
- 21st Split Film Festival / International Festival of New Film 2016
- Finalist, 14th Festival Internazionale Cinema d'Arte 2016 (Milano)
- Manifesto Film Festival (Amsterdam) 2018
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| 2017
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Hisham Bizri Retrospective
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- 12th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
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| 2017
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Night Shift
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4.51 minutes
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music video
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- Best Director, Amarcord Arthouse Film & Video Festival
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| 2017
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Shooq aka The Wanderer
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42 minutes
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| 2018
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Selected shorts
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- 2nd Annual CAVE (Cinematic Audio Visual Experimentation) Film Festival 2018
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| 2019
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Of Yellow was the outer Sky
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8 minutes
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- 14th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
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| 2021
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Elektra
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89 minutes
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35 mm film
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- 40th Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
- Netflix
- Apple TV
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- Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship (2019)
- Best Director (Tarkovsky Award) for "Night Shift," Amarcord Arthouse Film & Video Festival (2017)
- Best Editing Award for "Beneath the wide, wide, Heaven," RAIIFA International Film Festival (2016)
- Salomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University (2015)
- Script Station, Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin International Film Festival (2011)
- American Academy in Rome "Rome Prize" (2008)
- McKnight Media Artist Award (2008)
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
- Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship (2005)
