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Ahmed Abd, an independent filmmaker he was a member of the Iraqi Independent Film Center he directed short film " War Nest " Directed, he worked as an assistant director in the feature film " the journey " She also worked as an assistant director in the feature film " Haifa Street " also he wrote and edited short films, Then he worked for BreakThru Media as an editor, he also worked on a documentary film series With Indian and British companies and filmed these films inside Iraq, Two of these documentaries worked as a director , The other documentary films worked as first assistant director and director of photography, Now he works on a long documentary film " The fifth story " post production, and he founded a film production company in 2017 entitled " Soul Film " Where this company produced the first short documentary film " Birds of Sinjar " and the film also won the best press work at the BBC Film Festival in London.
Birds of Sinjar
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Ahmed Abd, an independent filmmaker he was a member of the Iraqi Independent Film Center he directed short film " War Nest " Directed, he worked as an assistant director in the feature film " the journey " She also worked as an assistant director in the feature film " Haifa Street " also he wrote and edited short films, Then he worked for BreakThru Media as an editor, he also worked on a documentary film series With Indian and British companies and filmed these films inside Iraq, Two of these documentaries worked as a director , The other documentary films worked as first assistant director and director of photography, Now he works on a long documentary film " The fifth story " post production, and he founded a film production company in 2017 entitled " Soul Film " Where this company produced the first short documentary film " Birds of Sinjar " and the film also won the best press work at the BBC Film Festival in London.
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After years of work experience as commissioning pro-</div>
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ducer with Aljazeera Documentary Channel (AJD), Louai</div>
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Haffar is embarking on a new journey of independent</div>
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documentary film production. During his time with AJD,</div>
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Louai had overseen the production process of tens of</div>
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documentary films from the inception of idea until the</div>
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final delivery of the film.</div>
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As a Master’s graduate of sociology and media, he is</div>
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especially interested in content analysis along with sto-</div>
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rytelling style and form. Louai has recently finished pro-</div>
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ducing his first feature-length documentary, A Memory</div>
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in Khaki, which has been screened in Hot Docs, Karlovy</div>
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Vary International Film Festival, Yamagata International</div>
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Documentary Film Festival, DOK Leipzig, among others.</div>
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Louai is currently working on two new documentary film</div>
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projects -- A Man on Fire and The Fifth Story.</div>
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In yet another episode of war in Iraq, a young Iraqi from the Yazidi minority is forced to carry arms at young age to protect his people from ISIS.</div>
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<p><strong>The BBC Arabic Film Festival Award for Best in Journalism</strong></p>
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