Amal Bedjaoui

Biography

Amal Bedjaoui (in arabic : أمل بجاوي), born in Algiers on July 27, 1963, is an Algerian film director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the daughter of the Algerian statesman Mohammed Bedjaoui. Amal Bedjaoui studied film at New York University and graduated from IDHEC in 1985 and obtained a DEA in Cinema from the University of Paris 1 in 1987. Amal Bedjaoui was an intern and assistant director on various feature films with Alain Resnais, Ben Lewin, Gérard Oury, Nadine Trintignant and Ariel Zeitoun, as well as a production-research preparation intern on the film Van Gogh for Maurice Pialat in 1991. She was an assistant director in the theater with Béatrice Houplain. Amal Bedjaoui was production manager on various short films and for the feature film "What I Have Written" by Australian director and documentary filmmaker John Hughes (film presented in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, 1996). In 1995, her film, Shoot me Angel won the Panorama Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1996. She directed Un fils, her first medium-length film of 58 minutes released in theaters in 2004. After being selected at the 60th Venice International Film Festival in the New Territories selection, the film received a special mention from the jury at the International Mediterranean Festival in Rome in 2006 and the CNC Quality Award.