Bassam Al-Thawadi
Film director
1960 –
Who is Bassam Al-Thawadi?
Bassam Mohammed Al-Thawadi is a veteran Bahraini filmmaker and film director, known for producing Bahrain's first feature film, The Barrier, in 1990. Regarded as a regional pioneer in film-making, he is a founding member of the GCC Cinema Society and is also the founder and director-in-general of first Arab Cinema Festival in Bahrain. He had directed numerous short films and also commercials, educational & cultural programmes during his tenure in the Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation as well as performing in plays.
Al-Thawadi was chairman of the Al Sawari Video Festival of 1994 and a member of the judging committee of the Baghdad International Television & Film Festival in 1988. He organized the New Egyptian Cinema Days Festival in Bahrain in 1993, and was the director of the fifth Arab Music Festival in 1996.
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- Born
- Dec 13, 1960
Gudaibiya - Also known as
- Bassam Mohammed Al-Thawadi
- Bassam Thawadi
- Spouses
- Seham Hameed Sanqoor
(1985/12/12 - 1986/09/16) - Donya Ahmed Al Wazzan
(2001/03/14 - )
- Seham Hameed Sanqoor
- Nationality
- Bahrain
- Profession
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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