WALID ABDELNOUR
Filmmaker, video artist
Walid Abdelnour (born 1980) is a Lebanese filmmaker and video maker living in Beirut. He holds a Masters from Sorbonne University Paris 1 in Cinema Studies (2008) and a BA in video art from USEK (Saint-Esprit University, Kaslik, Lebanon).
He is currently finishing his first feature-length documentary MEN HEBB WA DEBB (THE RED DOT) of which excerpts were shown in WAM in Italy.
He created the video content for LE CRITÈRE DE GRIFFITH, a multimedia theatre performance by Danielle Labaki (STATION Beirut, 2015).
He also collaborated with Cristina Ghinassi on the Ehdenya Project both in Lebanon and Malta. In the last few years he worked in Egypt with Mada Masr (a news website) on creating a visual identity, training members on video production as well as producing original content.
He directed a short fiction film with Camille Brunel, ROSALIND, and his last film was a videodance with Mayssan Charafeddine called THE CROSSING in 2019 that was selected in the Ciné-Corps Rennes Travelling Festival.
Walid is co-founder of YAZAN, a platform for artists and art practitioners offering intensive training programs, resources and support for their projects while favouring decentralisation and sustainability through touring and network.
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