THE PRODUCERS
Georges Schoucair
Founder and CEO of Abbout Productions
Lebanon
Georges runs the most active production company in Lebanon, turning out several fiction and documentary films every year spanning all genres. His new film THE SEA AHEAD by Ely Dagher will premiere in the Director’s Fortnight section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival (where Dagher won the Short Film Palme D’Or in 2015 with WAVES ’98). Georges has also just finished COSTA BRAVA LEBANON, Mounia Akl’s dark comedy set amid Lebanon’s never-ending garbage crisis.