the Directors
ZIAD DOUEIRI
DIRECTOR AND WRITER
LEBANON
Ziad’s courtroom thriller THE INSULT, which won the Best Actor award at last year’s Venice Film Festival, went on to become the first Lebanese film ever to be nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film. Picked up a slew of high-profile independent distributors across Europe, the film made more than $1 million on North American release through Cohen Media Group. What’s next for the filmmaker who cut his Hollywood teeth working in the camera and electrical departments of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino?