Menna Ekram

Menna Ekram is a writer/director from Egypt. She has a bachelor’s degree in Media, and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts (RSICA). She is a recipient of Chevening Scholarship where she got her MA in Feature Filmmaking at Bath Spa University in the UK.
Menna works as a freelance writer for TV dramas. She has writing credits on: the hit TV show “Heba Crow’s Feet” (180-episode); the social drama “Seventh Neighbor” (60-episode). And the supernatural thriller “Zodiac”, which is being picked up for two more seasons. And lately the fantasy thriller “Wadi Al Jinn'' which was picked up for a second season and currently in post-production.
Menna has written more than 10 short fiction films, some of which were commissioned by UN Women, GTZ and other regional organizations. She is also a feminist activist who co-founded the Ikhtyar initiative and launched the first feminist cinema club in Egypt.
In 2015, she went on to write/direct/produce her award-winning short film “The Wheel”, which went on to screen in more than 17 festivals.
In 2019, she went on to write/direct/co-produce her short film “Colorblind”, which premiered in the 40th Durban International Film festival in South Africa.