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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).

Film career

Bizri's films have been shown in international venues including Sundance, 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).

Selected films

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Awards and honors

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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)

References

1. ^ Hisham Bizri's website Archived 2017-09-10 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 October 2015
2. "New Frontier Shorts Q & A @ 2013 Sundance Film Festival" YouTube Published on 10 February 2013, Retrieved 4 October 2015

External links

• Hisham Bizri at IMDb
• Hisham Bizri's Vimeo

• 1966 births
• Living people
• Film directors from New York City
• Film producers from New York (state)
• American male screenwriters
• American people of Lebanese descent
• Brown University faculty
• English-language film directors
• Lebanese film directors
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
• University of Minnesota faculty
• Screenwriters from New York (state)