Hisham Bizri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hisham Bizri

American filmmaker

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1966

Place of Birth: Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Hisham Bizri (Arabic: ????? ??????? is a film director, writer, producer, and scholar born in Beirut, Lebanon.
Bizri started working in films in the US and Hungary with filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Raoul Ruiz, and Miklós Jancsó and has directed over 25 short films.
His industry experience includes work as Producer at Future TV (Lebanon), Creative Director at Orbit Communications Company (Rome/Dubai/Beirut/Cairo), and President & Creative Director of Levantine Films (NYC).
Bizri also has taught film for over two decades, most recently as Professor of Filmmaking and Screenwriting in the Literary Arts Department at Brown University.
He previously taught at the University of Minnesota, MIT, UC Davis, NYU, Boston University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and in Lebanon, Korea, Japan, Ireland, and Jordan (where he also initiated a number of academic film programs).
His students have gone on to study film at NYU, USC, AFI, UCLA, La Fémis (Paris) and FAMU (Prague).
In 2015, moved by the Syrian refugee crisis, Bizri returned to Jordan to partner with Jordan's Royal Film Commission in producing documentaries made by Arab filmmakers chronicling life in the Zaatari refugee camp and, in 2016, curating film programs for Syrian refugee children in Amman.