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Jocelyne Saab

Name in Native Language: "جوسلين صعب" (Arabic/AR)
Film Director / Screenwriter / Journalist / Photographer | * 04/30/1948 († 70, 01/07/2019) | Beirut (Lebanon)
Jocelyne Saab (30 April 1948 – 7 January 2019) was a Lebanese journalist and film director. She is recognized as one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema. A reporter, photographer, scriptwriter, producer, director, artist and founder of the Cultural Resistance International Film Festival of Lebanon, Saab focused on the deprived and disadvantaged – from displaced peoples to exiled fighters, cities at war and a Fourth World without a voice. Her work is grounded in historic violence, and in an awareness of the actions and images required to document, reflect on and counteract it. ()
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Jocelyne Saab is a filmmaker and a photographer. She was born in 1948 and grew up in Beirut. In 1973, she became a war reporter in the Middle-East, covering the war of October for Magazine 52, the third television channel in France. In 1975 she directed her first feature film, a documentary released in Parisian cinemas: Lebanon in Turmoil, distributed by Pascale Dauman. She will then cover the Lebanese war for fifteen years, during which she directs almost thirty films, including Beirut, Never Again, broadcasted on France 2 in 1976, Letter from Beirut and Beirut, My City, broadcasted on France 3 between 1978 and 1982. In 1977 both Egypt, City of the Dead and The Sahara is not up for sale and were shot and released in Parisian cinemas. In 1981, she shots Iran, Utopia in the Making on the days following the Iranian revolution, which received several international prizes. In 1998, she went to Vietnam and directed a documentary called The Lady of Saigon, which is awarded best French documentary by the French senate. It’s broadcasted on France 2, and in many international festivals.

Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Drama | Romance / Love

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Awards & Nominations for Jocelyne Saab

Officer of Arts and Letters
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Movies with Jocelyne Saab as Actress(1)

as English voice over1976 Beirut, Never Again

Movies with Jocelyne Saab as Crew(20)

Directing/Director2016 One Dollar a Day
Directing/Director2009 What's Going On?
Directing/Director2006 Dunia
Production/Producer2006 Dunia
Writing/Writer2006 Dunia
Directing/Director1996 The Lady of Saigon
Directing/Director1995 Once Upon a Time in Beirut
Writing/Writer1995 Once Upon a Time in Beirut
Directing/Director1985 The Razor's Edge
Production/Producer1985 The Razor's Edge
Writing/Idea1985 The Razor's Edge
Directing/Director1983 Beirut, My City
Directing/Director1980 Iran, Utopia in the Making
Directing/Director1979 A Letter from Beirut
Directing/Director1976 Histoire d’un village assiégé
Camera/Director of Photography1976 Beirut, Never Again
Directing/Director1976 Beirut, Never Again
Production/Producer1976 Beirut, Never Again
Directing/Director1976 War Children
Directing/Director1975 Lebanon in a Whirlwind

Additional Information

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Full Name: Jocelyne Saab
Citizenships: France, Lebanon
Born: Friday, 04/30 1948 (April) in Beirut (Lebanon)
Died: Monday, 01/07 2019 (January) in 13th arrondissement of Paris (aged: 70)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: Arabic (AR), French (FR)
Member of: Cinémathèque Française
Other names for Jocelyne Saab (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"جوسلين صعب"
Jocelyne Saab frequently works together with these people:
Jörg Stocklin (2x, Crew)
Aaidah Riyadh (1x, Actress)
Youssef Ismail (1x, Cast)
Paul Bertault (1x, Crew)
Samir Sayegh (1x, Crew)
Roger Assaf (1x, Actor)
Olivier Guenean (1x, Crew)
Mohamed Mounir (1x, Cast)
Michèle Tyan (1x, Crew)

Other people with this name: Jocelyne Saab

WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:509532, Added: 10/05/2018, Last updated: 03/26/2024