| Salma El-Sharkawy |
A Sudanese film director. He was the first to study film directing at the German College of Film and Television Arts in 1964 and the first Sudanese to study at a specialized academy for five years. He gained fame in European, Arab, African, and American film circles, and his films received numerous awards and recognition. He worked in the film production department of the Sudan Film Unit, wrote and directed plays, and he worked in television. He was the head of the Film Production Department at the State Cinema Corporation. He taught at the Higher Institute of Music and Drama and was an external examiner for graduates of the Faculty of Fine Arts and students of the Cinema Department at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Sudan University of Science and Technology. He was also a founding member and president of the Sudanese Filmmakers Union and a founding member of the Sudanese Film Group.
He was a founder and active member of the Cinema Club and an editor of Cinema magazine, published by the Cinema Department of the Ministry of Culture. He completed the editing of the film "Black Water," which was part of the trilogy "The Spot," but these films were lost in a British laboratory due to unpaid bills in 1991. He chose exile between Egypt and Canada and succeeded in saving his film "Human Being" (1994) during his stay in Egypt.
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