Mohamed Siam

Realness African Screenwriters' Residency 2018

Siam is a fiction and documentary filmmaker. A grantee of Sundance, World Cinema Fund, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde for his films that have been screened in NYFF, Karlovy Vary, and Carthage, where Siam won The Grand Prize and Best Cinematography 2017 for his first film WHOSE COUNTRY? distributed by Kino Lorber. His film AMAL was IDFA Opening Film that won Sheffield Jury Prize, was screened in Göteborg, CPH Dox, Vision du Réel, and was sold worldwide. An Alumnus of Sundance, La Femis, La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde in Cannes, and a Berlinale, Durban & Beirut Talent Alumnus who has won the Robert Bosch Film Prize and Thessaloniki award. Siam was a jury in Karlovy Vary, Göteborg, and Durban Film Festivals, IDFA Bertha, and Hot Docs Funds. Siam was elected a Member of The Academy, The Oscars in 2018. A fellow scholar and filmmaker resident at the American University in Paris in 2018 who was picked out as a fellow in Netflix Fellowship for the year 2021.

Email: m_siam2000@yahoo.com