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75East Signs Lebanese ‘Ebb & Flow’ Director Nay Tabbara
Short film, which won Tribeca's Student Visionary Award, follows Beirut teenager whose plans for a secret date are undone when bomb explodes in city
EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based global management and production company 75East has signed Lebanese writer-director Nay Tabbara, whose short film Ebb & Flow won the Student Visionary Award at its Tribeca world premiere in June. She gained experience on set, working as an assistant director in her native Lebanon for the likes of Ziad Doueiri and Mounia Akl, before moving to the U.S. to earn a MFA in Filmmaking degree from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Film program. Further talents on its books include Abu Bakr Shawky ( Yomeddine, Hajjan); Bassel Ghandour ( Theeb, The Alleys); Amjad Al Rasheed ( Inshallah A Bo y); Firas Khoury ( Alam, Maradona’s Legs); Faris Alrjoob ( The Red Sea Makes Me Wanna Cry); Yassmina Karajah ( Rupture) and Mahdi Fleifel ( To A Land Unknown).
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