Ola Al Shafeay

An Egyptian critic and screenwriter, she graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communication before joining the Higher Institute of Cinema to graduate from the Screenplay Department in 1999. She wrote the script for a number of short films that won awards, including “The End of the World,” “All This Beautiful Voice,” which won the Best Short Film Award at the National Egyptian Film Festival in 1996, and “The Wanderers,” which won the same award in 2001. Before she wrote the script for the feature film “Daughters’ Country,” which participated in Cairo and Dubai Festivals in 2007. On the critical level, she holds the position of Deputy Editorial Director of Al-Ahram, and Head of the Art Department at Youm 7 newspaper and website. She also previously edited "Cinema Online" and "Elite Cairo" magazines. She was a member of the critics’ jury committees at the Ismailia Film Festivals 2005, Rome 2003, Sale, Morocco 2009, and the Luxor African Film Festival 2012. She covered dozens of international and local film festivals as a journalist and critic, and the Journalists Syndicate awarded her the Journalistic Excellence Award in Artistic Coverage in 2002.