Jehane Noujaim
Jehane Noujaim ( Arabic چيهان نچيم Chihan Nutschaim ; * May 17, 1974 in Cairo , Egypt) is an American director of documentaries . Her best-known works include Control Room , The Square , Startup.com and Pangea Day .
Life
Noujaim is the daughter of an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian father and an American mother. She grew up in Kuwait and Cairo and moved to Boston in 1990.
There she attended the renowned Milton Academy (graduated in 1992) and then studied fine arts and philosophy at Harvard University . Before graduating magna cum laude , Noujaim won a scholarship in 1996 with which she made the Arab film Mokattam , about a garbage collecting village near Cairo .
She first worked for MTV and then directed Startup.com with Pennebaker Hegedus Films . The film received several awards including the DGA and IDA awards for best documentary.
Her film Control Room documents the United States Central Command and its relationships with Al Jazeera and other mass media reporting on the 2003 invasion of Iraq . The Square was published in 2013, about the 2011 revolution in Egypt . For this film, she received an Oscar nomination in the category of best documentary .
Web links
- Jehane Noujaim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Derry: Dark Dreams 2.0: A Psychological History of the Modern Horror Film from the 1950s to the 21st Century . McFarland, October 29, 2009, ISBN 9780786433971 , p. 382 (Retrieved June 4, 2012).
- ↑ Biography . August 6, 2004. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
- ^ Jehane Noujaim '92, to Address Graduating Class . April 2008. Archived from the original on December 10, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Noujaim, Jehane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American documentary director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th May 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo , Egypt |