Annemarie Jacir (Writer & Director)

Jacir is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter living in Jordan. Named one of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema, two of her films have premiered as Official Selections at the Cannes Film Festival, one as an Academy Award qualifier, and one in Venice. Her first feature film, Salt of this Sea, was Palestine’s Official Oscar Entry for Best Foreign Language Film and was also noted as the first feature film directed by a Palestinian woman. Salt of this Sea won the prestigious FIPRESCI Critic’s Prize, as well as Best Film in Milan, Best Film in Traverse City and the Special Jury Prizes at both the Osians Asian & Arab Film Festival and Oran Festival of Arab Cinema. The film has won numerous other awards including Best Screenplay (Dubai), the Randa Chahal Prize (Carthage International Film Festival), Cinema in Motion Awards (San Sebastian), Sopadin Grand Prize Best Screenplay nomination and Audience Awards at Houston Palestine Film Festival, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, and Cairo Refugee Festival. The film was released theatrically in cinemas in Europe, Asia, and the USA... more

Ossama Bawardi (Producer)

Bawardi is an independent producer based in Palestine and Jordan. Bawardi has been involved in various Palestinian productions including Paradise Now, Be Quiet and Waiting for Salah Al Din. Bawardi was the production manager of Salt of this Sea. He also works as a sound technician (credits include This is my Picture When I was Dead and A Boy, A Wall, and a Donkey). He is line producer of No Laughing Matter as well as numerous other films both fiction and documentary. He has been a guest participant of the Tribeca All Access Program in New York, where his latest project, When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir was selected, as well as the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Crossing Borders Film Market. He has been invited to speak on several panels regarding film production in the Middle East including with Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival. He also directed and produced the short film Haneen (2010).

Helene Louvart (Cinematographer)

Louvart is the DOP of films by Sandrine Veysset, Marc Recha, Dominique Cabrera, Christian Vincent among many others). And most recently PINA - the latest film by Wim Wenders. When I Saw You is her first collaboration with Annemarie Jacir.
Latest credits:
Pina (2011), Corpo celeste (2011), At Ellen's Age (2010), Copacabana (2010), Toutes les filles pleurent (2010), Little Indi (2009), Lignes de front  (2009), Salamander (2008), Le premier venu  (2008),L'homme qui marche (2007), A Parting Shot  (2007), Les ambitieux  (2006)

Hussein Baydoun (Art Director)

Baydoun is a Lebanese artist and stage designer. Born in 1972 in Beirut, a war torn city of architectural and urban chaos. From an early age Hussein found himself questioning the relationship between the private space and the public space, their borders and their overlapping. In 1996, he received a certificate in Architecture from the Institute of fine arts in Beirut. After six years of working and experimenting with interior architectural design he decided to turn his attention to plastic arts and stage design. Hussein has collaborated with many artists such as Issam Bou Khaled, Ahmed El Attar, Sawsan Bou Khaled, and Catherine Boskowitz. In 2005 he worked on Waiting by Rashid Masharawi and in 2008 The Dawn of the world by Abbas Fadhel. His work has been shown at numerous festivals most notably Berlin Festeshpile, Picolo theatro di Milano, the Theatrical Days of Carthage, Cairo, Europa festival in Lisbon and in Das der Welt in Berlin. Most recently he is working with director Annemarie Jacir on her new film "When I Saw You".

Hamada Atallah (Costume Designer)

Hamada Atallah is a fashion designer and has taught craft and design since 1992. Atallah has worked extensively as a costume designer in film and on the stage. Film credits include Rana's Wedding, Divine Intervention, Salt of this Sea, The Well, Bottle in the Sea of Gaza, Alata - Darkness, Man Without a Cell Phone, Tanathor Last days in Jerusalem and most recently The Attack, Inheritance and When I Saw You. Theatre work includes 'Jidariyeh', 'Eyes That See', 'Handala' at the Palestinian National Theater and 'Gilgamesh He is Not Dead' and 'Shams' at Al-Hakawati in France.

Rami Yasin (1st AD)

Raja Dubayah (Sound Recordist)

Dubayah is a Palestinian soundman and musician, based in Nazareth. In the last 10 years, as an on location recorder and mixer he has worked in more than fifty documentary and short films, in addition to three feature films (“When I Saw You” by Annemarie Jacir , “Plain Clothes” by Jessica Habie, “Amazing love“ by Kevin Downes). Dubayah has been involved in sound design and post production for picture as well, since 2008. As a musician, Dubayah has composed music for short films ( “Dog Days” by Eyas Salman, “A Boy, A Wall And A Donkey” by Hany Abu -Assad, “Oranges” by Maha Assal, “Haneen” by Ossama Bawardi), documentary films, theatre plays and dance performances as well.

Kamran Rastegar (Composer)

Having trained both in Arabic and Persian musics after earlier studying composition and performance of jazz and experimental music, Kamran Rastegar now directs the greater part of his musical interests to to composition of soundtracks for cinema works. In addition to scoring several short films, he has composed the soundtracks to the following feature length works: Salt of This Sea, (dir. Annemarie Jacir, 2009), Until When (co-composer, with Zafer Tawil; dir. Dahna AbouRahme, 2001), Hopefully for the Best (Raed al-Helou, 2004), and Whose Children Are These (dir. Theresa Thanjan, 2005). A CD of his compositions, Chehrenama, has been released by Hermes Records.

Kostas Varibopiotis (Sound Designer & Mixer)

Kostas Varibopiotis was born at 1958 in Athens-Greece. He studied sound engineering  in Munich-Germany. From 1989 to 1995 he worked for the Greek and German TV. Eversince he is mixing exclusively for the big screen (cinema). He worked with the best and most important Greek film directors in more than 200 feature as well as short films and documentaries. He has been nominated and awarded several times at film festivals and by the Hellenic Film Academy.

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