Myriam Sassine

About

Myriam Sassine majored in audiovisual studies at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in 2005 and received her M.A. in cinema research in 2009. She started working in 2005 as a story producer on reality shows and directed a short video, NO CONNECTION (2006), which was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival 2007 and screened in various international film festivals and art galleries. In 2010, Myriam Sassine worked for two years in content development with Lucky Monkey Pictures (USA) and Abbout Productions (Lebanon). In 2012, she became an Associate Producer at Abbout Productions working on several features such as THE VALLEY by Ghassan Salhab (TIFF 2014/ Berlinale Forum 2015), TRAMONTANE by Vatche Boulghourjian (Cannes Critic’s Week 2016). She produced the feature films ALL THIS VICTORY by Ahmad Ghossein (Venice Critic’s Week Grand Prize and Audience Award winner 2019), 1982 by Oualid Mouaness (TIFF 2019 - NETPAC Award), LEBANON FACTORY (Directors’ Fortnight- Cannes 2017) and THE RESTORATION OF ILA AYN? the first Lebanese auteur film (Cannes Classics 2017). Myriam also produces feature documentaries such as E MUET by Corine Shawi (Fid Marseille 2013/ KVIFF 2015), A TIME TO REST by Myriam El Hajj (Visions du Réel- Nyon 2015), PANOPTIC by Rana Eid (Locarno 2017) and AMAL by Mohamed Siam (Idfa 2017/ Hot Docs 2018). Myriam is an alumnus of DocMed (2011), Berlinale Talents (2014), Torino Film Lab (2018), EAVE Producer’s Workshop (2019) and Film Independent Producing Lab (2019). Since 2016, she is the COO of Schortcut Films, dedicated to coproducing international features such FÉLICITÉ by Alain Gomis (Silver Bear at 2017 Berlinale) and IT MUST BE HEAVEN by Elia Suleiman (Cannes Competition 2019). In 2016, she cofounded Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival, the first fantastic film festival in the Middle East and acts as the festival’s director.