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Sally El Hosaini
Sally El Hosaini
Sally is currently working on her debut feature as writer/director, My Brother The Devil. It was developed through the Sundance Directors Lab, two Sundance Screenwriters Labs, RAWI Screenwriters Lab, and Babylon Development Initiative. She is also writing an original and as yet untitled feature for acclaimed Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz (Madame Satã, O Céu de Suely) & producer Andro Steinborn (The Countess, Goodbye Bafana, Funny Games, Imagine Me & You).
Sally was one of Screen International’s UK Stars of Tomorrow 2009.
Her short, The Fifth Bowl, won a regional BAFTA. Another short, Henna Night, was officially selected for the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, in competition at Rotterdam and Raindance, and screened at the ICA and BAFTA, and is distributed internationally by Peccadillo Pictures.
Sally has also co-written the Iranian/American feature film Camelia, which goes into production in 2011 shooting in Syria and New York. Prior to writing and directing Sally script edited and was the specialist researcher on the BAFTA & EMMY winning HBO Films/BBC Drama mini-series House Of Saddam. Before that she was a production coordinator in features and worked on several Middle East documentaries.
During She Writes, Sally worked on the feature, Welcome to Alaska.
Welcome To Alaska
by Sally El Hosaini
Welcome To Alaska is a coming of age film about sex and desire set in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Hurghada.
Boyish 25-year-old Rocky is a sensitive street hustler dissatisfied with the daily grind. He and his best friend, silver-tongued tourist tout, Ali, are two of the many young men who duck and dive through life, a million wisecracks and even more moneymaking schemes. But Rocky’s heart isn’t in it anymore. All he wants is to ‘get’ Darya, the beautiful Russian nightclub dancer he’s obsessed with. When his schemes backfire an unconventional bond with Lizzie, a 45-year-old English tourist on a five-day package holiday, changes the course of his life.
Welcome To Alaska is a quirky story of a lonely soul searching for a human connection. It's a film that explores the gulf that can exist between our aspirations and reality.
During She Writes Sally has been mentored by Robyn Slovo.
Sally can be contacted at:
sallyelhosaini@mac.com
www.sallyelhosaini.com