Biographies: Sheirak Sourin - Editor

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An Iraqi editor, born in Al Anbar Governorate (Ramadi) in Western Iraq. He appeared as a child in the film Alya And Essam (1948). He lived with his uncle, a well-known mechanic at the time in Iraq, who established the Hamaz Studio in a suburb of Baghdad. Despite earning a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Sheirak turned to cinema and mastered editing, which he was doing inside the Hamaz Studio. He worked for a few years in the General Organization for Cinema and Theatre and directed several documentaries and short films for it, and he edited many films made by other directors in addition to his own films. Among the films he directed is Green Life, for which he won the second prize for directing as a tie with the movie A Useful Sentence by Mohammed Shukri Jameel at the Iraqi Film Festival in 1976, and he also won the first prize in editing for the same film.

• 20 February 2023
• Shaimaa Saied