Scandar copti biography of barack
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| Scandar Copti | |
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Copti at representation 82nd Establishment Awards Distant Language Album Award Directors Reception | |
| 1 Nomination | |
| Role | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter |
| Born | 1975 |
| Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel | |
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Nominations[]
- 82nd Establishment Awards, 2009
- Best Foreign Jargon Film — Ajami (representing Israel) (shared with Yaron Shani)
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Copti is an Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker born and raised in Yafa. In 2009, his first full-length feature film "Ajami" won the Camera d'Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival. His film was also nominated for the 82nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category and won more than 15 awards worldwide. Formerly a mechanical engineer, he has also written, directed and edited several fiction, documentary and experimental short films. Copti was on the jury of the Tribeca film festival as well as at the Thessaloniki film festival in 2010 and President of the Human Rights Award in the Istanbul International film festival 2011. Copti was part of the team that launched the Doha Tribeca Film Festival and the Doha Film Institute (DFI) and he headed the DFI's education department until November 2011. Currently Copti is developing his next feature film project.
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Interview: Palestinian cinema
| Scandar Copti’s film, Ajami, features non-actors and tells the story of Palestinians living in Jaffa |
Scandar Copti is a Palestinian filmmaker born and raised in Jaffa. After leaving his profession as a mechanical engineer to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker, his first full-length feature film, Ajami, which he co-directed with Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jewish filmmaker, has won innumerable awards.
While shot in only 23 days, the film took 14 months to edit and seven years to fund and write.
Ajami is based on a true story about Palestinians who live in Jaffa amid the growing Jewish metropolis of Tel Aviv in a neighbourhood that has been gentrified, marginalised and oppressed.
Like the Sao Paulo favela-based film, City of God, the film uses non-actors in a setting where violence and conflict is a daily reality.
Copti talks to Al Jazeera about his film’s success, representing Israel and the growth of Palestinian cinema.
Al Jazeera: Ajami is based on a story about a revenge murder, but it is also a neighbourhood in Jaffa that you are from. It took you seven years to make the film, tell us more about it.
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