Hala Lotfy هالة لطفي

Biography

Hala Lotfy is an Egyptian director, born in 1973. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University in 1995, and also graduated from the Directing Department of the Higher Institute of Cinema in 1999. She worked as a film critic for Al-Dustour...Read more newspaper. She directed three documentaries, for which she won several prizes for those works. She was an assistant director in several films. She's known for Coming Forth by Day (2012), and Exterior/ Night (2018).

- Nationality:
- Egypt
- Date of Birth:
- 30 November 1973

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Egyptian filmmaker born in 1973, Hala studied economies and political science and graduated from Cairo University in 1995. She studied filmmaking in Cairo Film Institute and...Read more graduated with an honor degree in 1999. She made three documentaries independently from 2001 to 2004. She worked with Aljazeera documentary channel making seven TV documentaries in a series called “Arabs of Latin America” from 2005 to 2006. In 2007 she began producing her long feature debut "Coming Forth by Day" totally independently. The project was suspended for sometime and was resumed after the revolution. In 2010, with the help of the partners of "Coming Forth by Day," Hala composed “Hassala Films” which is an independent company aiming to support young artists to achieve their dream projects. In July 2011, Hala received the prestigious Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award, given to a new cinematic voice reflecting integrity of spirit in independent film.
Hala Lotfy is an Egyptian filmmaker. She was born in 1973. Hala studied economics and political science and graduated from Cairo University in 1995. She studied filmmaking in Cairo...Read more Film Institute and graduated with an honor degree in 1999. She made three documentaries independently from 2001 to 2004. She worked with Aljazeera documentary channel making seven TV documentaries in a series called “Arabs of Latin America” from 2005 to 2006. In 2007 she began producing her long feature debut Coming Forth by Day totally independent. The project was suspended for sometime and was resumed after the revolution. In 2010, with the help of the partners of Coming Forth by Day, Hala composed “Hassala Films” which is an independent company aiming to support young artists to achieve their dream projects. In July 2011, Hala received the prestigious Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award, given to a new cinematic voice reflecting integrity of spirit in independent film.