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Mohamed Ghazala. Ph.D

CEO

  • Mohamed Ghazala is an associate professor of animation at Minia University in Egypt and chair of the school of Cinematic Arts at Effat University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is also the Vice President of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA, and the founder of ASIFA Egypt, its first chapter in Africa and in the Arab world.
  • He served as a jury member of a number of international animation festivals such as: Annecy 2021 (France) Stuttgart 2011 (Germany), Castelli Animati (Italy), SICAF (Korea), Animanima (Serbia), AnimaAfrik (Ghana), ReAnimania (Armenia), Animae Caribe (Trinidad & Tobago), AnimaBasauri (Spain), CICDAF (China), Chilemonos (Chile), Zanzibar 2019 (Tanzania) and Anima Córdoba 2021 (Argentina).
  • Additionally, Dr. Ghazala has been a visiting lecturer at several fine arts & film institutes amongst which are: Jilin animation institute (China), Cologne’s Academy of Media Arts (KHM- Germany), NAFTI (Ghana), Durban Art & Animation center (South Africa), and Antioquia University (Colombia).

  • As an animator and filmmaker, Ghazala directed and co-directed a list of awarded films that includes, but not limited to, “Carnival” (2001), “Crazy Works” (2002), “HM HM” (2005),”Sayari Yetu” (2006), including the first Yemen’s animated film “Salma” in (2006). Significantly, his film “Honyan’s Shoe” (2009) won the Animation Prize at The African Movie Academy Awards (The African Oscar AMAA) in Lagos/Nigeria 2010. Recently, his film “The Pyramid” was nominated to the same prize 2021.

  • He gave a number of workshops on animation in different countries and acted as a film consultant for several international festivals. In 2011, he published his first book under the title “Animation in the Arab World” (Lambert AP. Germany). His second book with title “Animation in Africa” which 1st edition was published 2013, and 2nd edition in 2021.
  • Ghazala mainly concentrates on making independent experimental animated films as a part of personal work or as a part of workshops (e.g. Greece, Tunisia, Capo Verde, Comoros) and art residencies (e.g. UNESCO-ASCHBERG’s to Colombia, UNESCO’s Africa Animated to Kenya, Pro Helvetia’s to Switzerland ).

  • Ghazala directed and co-directed many awarded films, such as “Carnival” (2001), “Crazy Works” (2002), “HM HM” (2005),”Sayari Yetu” (2006), including the first Yemen’s animated film “Salma” in 2006, and “Honyan’s Shoe” (2009) which won the Animation Prize at The African Movie Academy Awards (The African Oscar AMAA) in Lagos/Nigeria 2010.

  • He gave a number of workshops on animation in different countries and acted as a film consultant for several international festivals. In 2011, he published his first book under the title “Animation in the Arab World” (Lambert AP. Germany). His second book with title “Animation in Africa” which published in Egypt 2013.

  • Ghazala mainly concentrates in making independent experimental animated films on his own or in the course of workshops (e.g. Greece, Tunisia, Capo Verde) or art residencies (e.g. UNESCO-ASCHBERG’s to Colombia, UNESCO’s Africa Animated to Kenya).