Clancy Chassay is a writer, director, actor, and journalist. He has covered conflict zones across the world for various British news outlets, including The Guardian , [1] The Economist , The Independent , [2] The Sunday Telegraph , [3] and the BBC. He has produced and directed documentaries for Channel 4 [4] and Guardian Films in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, the United States, and Chechnya. He now works as a director and screenwriter in Los Angeles.
Chassay grew up in artist David Hockney’s apartment [5] in West London. When Hockney left for Los Angeles he sold his home [6] to Chassay's designer parents and it became a hub for local and visiting artists, musicians and filmmakers.
As a young actor Chassay appeared in two films by Derek Jarman [7] opposite Laurence Olivier [8] and Tilda Swinton [9] as well as a string of commercials and music videos. In his late teens Chassay was recruited to develop television concepts for MTV and the UK's Channel 4, where he was the youngest member of Channel 4's Ideas Lab. Chassay went on to study philosophy and international relations at Sussex University, where he was a regular contributor to the Philosophy Society. During his university years, he was photographed by artist Tina Barney, Mario Testino, and modelled for Italian Vogue.
After university, Chassay moved to Lebanon to study Arabic and Middle Eastern studies at the American University of Beirut and work on the Lebanese English-language newspaper The Daily Star . [10] He became a correspondent for The Guardian following the outbreak of the Lebanon war in July 2006, also working as Beirut correspondent for The Economist and The Sunday Telegraph .
He subsequently worked as a reporter and documentary filmmaker in Afghanistan, Israel, Gaza, Myanmar and Chechnya, investigating corruption, abuse, refugee crises, and the disproportionate use of force on civilian populations. He was nominated for the Rory Peck Award for Freelance Reporting and for Best Multimedia Journalist at the British Press Awards. [11]
After several years working as a journalist in the Middle East, Chassay moved to Los Angeles to work with director Rupert Sanders on the development of advertising campaigns and film projects, among them Snow White and the Huntsman. [12] His first screenplay was optioned by Lloyd Levin and Foundry Pictures. Soon after he was commissioned to write a sci-fi disaster movie for John Penotti and Green Street Films. He then developed a hi-tech spy series with Janet and Jerry Zucker, and a thriller project for Bernado Bertolucci. In 2015 he wrote and directed the short film The Foreigner, [13] starring Michael Stahl David. Later that year, he was hired to write a Chinese mythological fantasy film for Road Pictures and then developed a racial revenge thriller, from a story written while working as a journalist, with director Nabil Elderkin. He is currently writing a thriller for director Shekhar Kapur, with Lloyd Levin producing.
Terry A. Anderson is an American journalist. He reported for the Associated Press. In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Jihad Organization in Lebanon and held until 1991. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio State Senate.
Frank Launder was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat.
Nabil Shaban is a Jordanian-British actor and writer. He co-founded Graeae—a theatre group which promotes disabled performers. He's best known as the recurring villain Sil in Doctor Who.
Sex Traffic is a two-part British-Canadian television thriller, written by Abi Morgan and directed by David Yates, that first broadcast on Channel 4 on 14 October 2004. The series, produced by Veronica Castillo and Derek Wax, stars John Simm as Daniel Appleton, a journalist who uncovers a trafficking ring involving Anti-Trafficking officers employed by a private security company in the United States. As Daniel vows to help Elena, one of the trafficked girls, he attempts to expose the business which forces young women from Eastern Europe into a life of sexual slavery.
John Leonard Duncan Mackenzie was a Scottish film director who worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director and later as an independent director himself.
Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese and Canadian actress, director, and activist. Labaki first came into the spotlight as an actress in the early 2000s. Her filmmaking career began in 2007 after the release of her debut film, Caramel, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. She is known for demonstrating everyday aspects of Lebanese life and covering a range of political issues such as war, poverty, and feminism. She is the first female Arab director to be nominated for an Oscar in the category for Best Foreign Language Film for third directorial effort, Capernaum (2018).
Stephen Woolley is an English filmmaker and actor. His career has spanned over three and a half decades, for which he was awarded the BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in February 2019. As a producer, he has been Oscar-nominated for The Crying Game (1992), and has produced multi-Academy Award nominated films including Mona Lisa (1986), Little Voice (1998), Michael Collins (1996), The End of the Affair (1999), Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Carol (2016). He runs the production company Number 9 Films with his partner Elizabeth Karlsen.
Philippe Aractingi is an award-winning author, director, producer, actor and photographer. Aractingi is Franco-Lebanese.
The cinema of Lebanon, according to film critic and historian Roy Armes, is the only other cinema in the Arabic-speaking region, beside Egypt's, that could amount to a national cinema. Cinema in Lebanon has been in existence since the 1920s, and the country has produced more than 500 films.
Wittgenstein is a 1993 experimental comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Derek Jarman, and produced by Tariq Ali. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and Japan, the film is loosely based on the life story, as well as the philosophical thinking of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The adult Wittgenstein is played by Karl Johnson.
Danielle Arbid is a French filmmaker of Lebanese origin who has been directing films since 1997.
Thorold Barron Dickinson was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow director Martin Scorsese describing him as "a uniquely intelligent, passionate artist... They're not in endless supply."
Ziad Doueiri is a Lebanese film director. He is known for his award-winning films West Beirut (1998) and The Insult (2017), a film that was nominated at the 90th Academy Awards, representing Lebanon in the Best International Feature Film category.
Srifa is a town in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon. It is located 22 kilometres east of the city Tyros and 90 kilometers south of the capital Beirut. It is the birthplace of Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010.
Solace is a 2015 American mystery thriller film directed by Afonso Poyart and starring Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Abbie Cornish. The film was released on December 16, 2016, by Lionsgate Premiere. The film is about a psychic doctor, John Clancy, who works with FBI special agent Joe Merriwether in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose. The film's script was originally planned and developed as a sequel to the 1995 thriller film Se7en, but the idea was eventually scrapped. Solace was completed as a standalone film.
Jad Al-Akhaoui, also known as Jad Akhawy or Akhawi, is a prominent Lebanese journalist.
Without Remorse is a 2021 American action thriller film based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It is directed by Stefano Sollima and written by Taylor Sheridan and Will Staples, and stars Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Luke Mitchell, Jack Kesy, Brett Gelman, Lauren London, Colman Domingo and Guy Pearce. The plot follows John Kelly, a U.S. Navy SEAL who sets out on a path of revenge after his pregnant wife and unit members are killed by Russian hitmen.
Martyr is the second feature film by Lebanese writer and director Mazen Khaled. The film was selected for screening at the 74th Venice International Film Festival in the Biennale College - Cinema section, where it was nominated for the Queer Lion award, and at the 2018 SXSW in the Global section. Martyr was produced by Diala Kachmar of Artrip Production and is distributed in North America by Breaking Glass Pictures and in the UK by Peccadillo Pictures. Martyr was described by Indiewire as "One of the most under-appreciated films of 2018". It features a large ensemble cast led by Carol Abboud, Hamza Mekdad, and Moustafa Fahs.
Takla Chamoun Farjallah is a Lebanese actress, drama instructor, producer, and the co-founder and CEO of the Lebanese Film Academy. Chamoun is highly regarded in the Middle East and the Arab World for her acting and her ability to mold into a character.
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