Hisham Bizri
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Hisham Bizri | |
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| Education | Boston University, Harvard University, New York University, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, Film producer, Actor, Screenwriter, Curator, Professor |
| Spouse | Michelle Mason Bizri (1986–present) |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Bogliasco Fellowship, 2019
Rome Prize, 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007 |
Hisham Bizri (Arabic: هيشام البزري) is a film director, writer, producer, and scholar born in Beirut, Lebanon. Bizri began working in film in the US with filmmaker Raoul Ruiz.[1] Bizri has directed over 25 shorts and one feature film. His industry experience includes work as Producer at Future TV (Lebanon), Creative Director at Orbit Communications Company (Beirut), and President & Creative Director of Levantine Films (NYC). Bizri also taught film for over two decades, most recently as Professor of Filmmaking and Screenwriting in the Literary Arts Department at Brown University. He previously taught at 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).[2] Since 2020, Bizri has maintained an independent film practice studio based in Berlin, Germany.
Film career[edit]
Bizri's films have been shown in international venues including Sundance,[3] Cannes, Berlin, Oberhausen (multiple times), 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).[4]
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Selected films[edit]
| Year | Title | Length | Format | Notes |
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| 1989 | The Dream | 7 minutes | Super-8 | |
| 1989 | The Sun | 5 minutes | Super-8 | |
| 1990 | The Third of May | 9 minutes | 16mm film | |
| 1990 | The Dream of a Ridiculous Man | 22 minutes | 16mm film | |
| 1991 | The Leaves of a Cypress | 15 minutes | Betacam SP | |
| 1991 | Vertov's Valentine | 12 minutes | Betacam SP | |
| 1992 | Message from a Dead Man | 20 minutes | 16mm film | |
| 1997 | Mitologies | Stereoscopic Cinema | ||
| 1997 | Las Meninas | Stereoscopic Cinema | ||
| 2002 | City of Brass | 24 minutes | Betacam | |
| 2002 | La Rencontre | 28 minutes | DV | Based on the short story "Emma Zunz" by Jorge Luis Borges. |
| 2002 | Chabrol á Biarritz | 23 minutes | DV | Interview with Claude Chabrol |
| 2005 | Vertices: Beirut.Dublin.Seoul | 32 minutes | DV | A film for three screens. |
| 2005 | Asmahan | 21 minutes | 35mm film | |
| 2008 | Song for the Deaf Ear | 18 minutes | 16mm film/High-definition video | Silent but for the last minute
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| 2010 | A Film | 8.32 minutes | 16mm film/High-definition video |
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| 2012 | Sirocco | 18 minutes | 35mm film |
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| 2016 | Beneath the wide wide Heaven | 15 minutes | 35mm film |
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| 2017 | Hisham Bizri Retrospective | |||
| 2017 | Night Shift | 4.51 minutes | music video |
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| 2017 | Shooq aka The Wanderer | 42 minutes | ||
| 2018 | Selected shorts |
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| 2019 | Of Yellow was the outer Sky | 8 minutes | ||
| 2021 | Elektra | 89 minutes | 35 mm film |
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Awards and honors[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ Ruiz, Raoul (1996-06-07), The Golden Boat, retrieved 2016-02-08
- ^ Hisham Bizri's website Archived 2017-09-10 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 October 2015
- ^ "New Frontier Shorts Q & A @ 2013 Sundance Film Festival" YouTube Published on 10 February 2013, Retrieved 4 October 2015
- ^ Hisham Bizri's website Archived 2017-09-10 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 October 2015
External links[edit]
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Film directors from New York City
- American film producers
- 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 Massachusetts
- Screenwriters from Minnesota
- Screenwriters from Rhode Island