Jehane Noujaim is an Egyptian American documentary film director best-known for her films Control Room, Startup.com and Pangea Day.
Jehane Noujaim was born on 17 May, 1974 in Cairo, Egypt where she grew up and began her career as a photographer and filmmaker. She moved to Boston in 1990, where she attended Milton Academy, matriculated to Harvard University in 1992 and graduated magna cum laude in Visual Arts and Philosophy in 1996. The same year,...
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Jehane Noujaim is an Egyptian American documentary film director best-known for her films Control Room, Startup.com and Pangea Day.
Jehane Noujaim was born on 17 May, 1974 in Cairo, Egypt where she grew up and began her career as a photographer and filmmaker. She moved to Boston in 1990, where she attended Milton Academy, matriculated to Harvard University in 1992 and graduated magna cum laude in Visual Arts and Philosophy in 1996. The same year, before her graduation, Noujaim was awarded the Gardiner fellowship under which she directed Mokattam, an Arabic film about a garbage collecting village near Cairo in Egypt. She joined the MTV News and Documentary division as a segment producer for the documentary series, UNfiltered. Noujaim left her job at MTV to produce and direct Startup.com in association with Pennebaker Hegedus Films. The feature length, highly acclaimed documentary has won numerous distinguished awards including the DGA and IDA Awards for best documentary. She has since...
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