Simon el habre biography

Simon El-Habre Editor/Director Simon El Habre was born in Beirut in 1975.

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In 1998 he obtained his Diploma in Audiovisual Directing from Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) in 1999 and graduated from Femis (Paris) in Film and Video Editing in 2000. He used to teach Video and Visual Expression as well as Film and Video Editing in ALBA between 2001 and 2005.

He directed and edited a large number of commercials and TV-reportages, mainly for Arab satellite channels MBC, al-Arabia, and al-Jazeera and edited award winning short and documentary films. Simon El Habre is member in the cultural association for the development of cinema, Beirut DC.

Filmography as diretcor The One Man Village (Feature Documentary), 2008 (www.theonemanvillage.com) - Best feature length documentary – Hot Docs (Canada, 2009) - Special Jury Prize – International Film Festival Dubai (UAE, 2008) - Special jury Mention – One World Festival Prague (Czeck Republ