| farah ashraf |
A French director and screenwriter, born in Paris. He studied film directing at New York University in the mid-1980s. After a year working as a screen reader at Warner Brothers in Los Angeles, he became a journalist for the French film magazine Studio for more than seven years. He had the golden opportunity to interview most of the world’s great directors, such as Martin Scorsese, Jean-Luc Godard, John Woo, Steven Spielberg, and Woody Allen, with whom he had extensive discussions and interviews on most of the practical aspects of film directing in his book Moviemakers' Master Class: Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors. In the following four years, he was able to employ those lessons in his professional life, first as a screenwriter in French cinema and television films, then as a director of two short films, the first titled De source sûre, which won the Panavision Award at the Avignon Film Festival in New York in 1999, and the second Demain est un autre jour. His first feature film was The Story of My Life (2004), a romantic comedy, and he also wrote the film himself. He also directed Return of the Hero (2018) and Juste ciel! (2022).
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