Nora Alsharif is a Jordanian film director best known for her work on the short films “Wednesday Afternoons” and “Ismail”. After a career as a graphic designer, she turned to her passion for filmmaking and moved to London in 2009 where she obtained a Master’s degree in Directing Film from the University of Westminster. Her graduation film “Wednesday Afternoons” won the Don Quixote Jury Award in Poland and was screened at many festivals worldwide. In 2012, she teamed up with her father who wrote the short film “Ismail”, which was selected to participate at the 11th Berlinale Talent Campus, (part of the Berlin International Film Festival) and went on to premiere at the Palm Springs Short Film Festival and won several awards including Best Short Film at the Alexandria Film Festival. Alsharif currently resides in the US where she is developing her first feature film project.

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Ayman El Amir is an international script consultant and film producer. He worked as a script consultant for many programs, labs and institutes including TorinoFilmLab, Doha Film Institute, The Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, International Marrakesh Film Festival Atlas Workshop and The Royal Film Commission - Jordan. El Amir consults privately on films and leads several international script development workshops and masterclasses. In 2016, he implemented MAHD Film Lab, a Cairo-based script development program open to filmmakers working on Arab film projects and Arab-European co-production. As a producer, his latest work includes the short fiction, (Fakh), selected for the official competition of Semaine de la Critique at Cannes Film Festival 2019 and the feature documentary “Happlie Ever After”, which premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2016.

Aseel Mansour is a Jordanian Filmmaker, born in 1977 in Iraq. He moved to Jordan in 1991, and lived in the UAE between 2004 and 2011 where he worked as a worldwide media strategist for Microsoft. In 2011, Mansour founded ShaShat Multimedia Productions in Amman, where he works as a general manager, executive producer, and director of select shows. He received a Master’s degree in Media Psychology from Walden University (Minnesota, USA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan.