نجـــوم الغانــــم
Nujoom Alghanem

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Nujoom Alghanem is a multi-award-winning film producer/director. She has produced twenty films including short fictions, documentaries, art films, and seven feature-length documentaries.

Her films have won regional and international prizes. She is the co-founder of Nahar Productions, a film production company based in Dubai, and a professional trainer in filmmaking and creative writing.

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In 1999, she graduated with MA in Media

Production, School of Film, Griffith University in Australia.

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In addition to producing her own films, she currently works as a film, media and cultural consultant as well as a film mentor for some of the educational institutes and cultural organizations in the UAE.

 

  Some of her films include:

 

• An Imaginary Portrait of Palestine, 2022, Video Art.

• Passage, 2019, Video Art.

• Rain on my Skin, 2018, Video Art

• The Forest under the Sea, 2018, Video Art

• Writer’s Room, 2018, Video Art​

• Sharp Tools, 2017, Feature Documentary

• Honey, Rain, & Dust, 2016/2017, Feature Documentary

• Dancing with Shadows, 2016, Short Experimental.

• Nearby Sky, 2014, Feature Documentary

• Sounds of the sea, 2014, Feature Documentary

• Red Blue Yellow, 2013, Feature Documentary

• The Young Fighter, 2013, Short Documentary

• Amal, 2011, Feature Documentary

• Salma’s Dinner, 2011, Short Fiction

• Hamama, 2010, Feature Documentary

• Al Mureed, 2008, Feature Documentary

• Between Two Banks- 1999, Short Documentary

• The Park, 1997, Short Fiction.

• Ice Cream, 1997, Short Fiction.

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She has received the following Awards and Recognitions:

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      SHARP TOOLS

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• Award of Outstanding Excellence: Original Score, Docs  Without Borders Film Festival, DE, US, 2018.

• Award of Outstanding Excellence: Editing, Docs        Without Borders Film Festival, DE, US, 2018.

• Award of Outstanding Excellence: Viewer Impact: Motivational/Inspirational, Docs Without Borders Film Festival, DE, US, 2018.

• Best Feature Documentary of April, Los Angeles Film Awards, 2018.

• Best Experimental Feature Documentary, Portoviejo        Film Festival, Ecuador, 2018.

• Special Mention, Oran International Arabic Film Festival, Oran, Algeria, 2018.

• Award of Merit, Impact Docs Awards, LA, US, 2018.

• Best Female Director, London Independent Film            Awards, London, April 2018.

• Best Feature Documentary, Ismailia International Film Festival, Egypt, 2018.

• Best Feature Documentary, DIFF, Emirati Muhr, Dubai, 2017.

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     HONEY, RAIN & DUST

 

• First Prize, Al Owais Creative Award, The Cultural & Scientific Association, Dubai, 2017

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     SOUNDS OF THE SEA 

 

• Alexandria Mediterranean Countries Film Festival, Special Jury Prize Award, Egypt, 2015.

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    NEARBY SKY

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• Best Non-Fiction Film, DIFF, Dubai, 2014.

• Best Documentary, GCC Film Festival, 2016, Abu Dhabi.

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   THE YOUNG FIGHTER 

 

• Best Documentary, Al Owais Creative Award, The Cultural & Scientific Association, Dubai, 2014.

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    AMAL​

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• First Prize, GCC Film Festival, Kuwait, 2013, .

• Special Jury Prize, Beirut Int. Film Festival. 2012

• Second Prize, Documentary Competition, Gulf Film Festival, 2012.

• First Prize, DIFF, Dubai, 2011.

• Recognition for her contribution in filmmaking in the Gulf Region, , GCC Film Festival, 2013.

  

    HAMAMA

  

• Best Director, GCC Film Festival, Qatar2012

• First Prize on, Baghdad Int. Film Festival, Arab Women Directors' Competition, Iraq, 2011.

• First Prize, Malmo Film Festival, Sweden, 2011

• First Prize, Gulf Film Festival, 2011, Dubai

• Special Jury Prize, Dubai International Film Festival, 2010  

 

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    ALMUREED

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• Best Feature Documentary in the Gulf, Emirates FilmCompetition, Abu Dhabi Int. Film Festival, 2008.

• Most Promising UAE Filmmaker, Dubai Int. Film Festival 2008.

• Special Mention, Gulf Film Festival, Dubai 2008.

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