Louly Seif

Louly SEIF is a filmmaker & a video editor born in 1976 in Alexandria & based in Cairo, Egypt. She studied Anthropology & Film at the American University in Cairo & the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. In 2011, she completed her MA degree in Aural and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London. After working in the human rights and development fields and with UNHCR in Tajikistan for few years, she began working in 2003 as an editor for commercial and independent feature films, documentaries and video art in both Dubai and Cairo. In 2006, she established a Cairo based post- production house, through which she edited a dozen of documentary films for Al Jazeera documentary channel with a strong emphasis on social, artistic and political issues in the Arab world as well as numerous independent films and video art projects. She directed two documentaries: Resurrection (Tajikistan, 2003) and 2 Femmes, 4 Chiens et 6 Jours (Belgium, 2007), as well as a short 16mm film Deuteronomy (Egypt, 2012). She is currently working on a long feature essay film funded by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) in conjunction with editing fiction, documentary and art projects as well as providing training sessions on technical and theoretical aspects of non-linear montage and analogue filmmaking. In the last couple of months, she completed Up.Grade, Europe’s first 9 months postgraduate studies program for color grading at the German Film & Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB).