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The Lebanese Movie Awards

By: Eva Oueiss

The 5th edition of the Lebanese Movie Awards(LMAs)was held at the Casino du Liban on Tuesday 17,2018 . Among the esteemed attendees were class A artists, actors and filmmakers such as Aline Lahoud,Badih Abou Chakra, Adel Karam, Diamand Abou Abboud, Philippe Aractangi…
Jury members were: Film Professor and Veteran Emile Chahine, Film Producer and Festival Founder Sam Lahoud, Actress Darine Hamze, Producer Nibal Arakji, TV presenters Ghida Majzoub and Pierre Rabbat, Veteran Actors Fadi Abi Samra and Hassan Mrad.
The winners were:
Muriel Aboulrouss for Best Cinematography, Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma for Best Writing, and The Insult for Best Ensemble Cast and Best Motion Picture. Vatche Boulghourjian won Best Director for his film Tramontane
NDUer Emilio Eid, is the young man whom passion was clearly reflected through the success of this year’s LMA’s edition.


Stay tuned for for next year’s nominees that are expected to be announced starting January 2019.

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Emile Chahine was born in Lebanon in 1942. He was involved in cinema by correspondence studies, trainings, seminars and festivals, after a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Saint Joseph – USJ. He wrote cinema reviews and analysis in addition to weekly articles for several Lebanese and European magazines; he created and presented Television programs, he was the cinematic advisor for LBC and Tele Liban networks for several years. He founded many Cine Clubs around Lebanon; currently he animates a weekly Cine Club at NDU. Chahine is a cinema professor at NDU, ALBA and INBA( Master) and previously at LAU ; he teaches Comparative Cinema, Art of the Film and world Cinema Survey. He is a co-founder of the NDU International Film Festival and Head of the Jury in Cinema’yat short Film Festival, in addition to his participation in several local and international Film Festivals juries Like Med film Festival( Italy-2010 ) and actually the "Trophées Francophones du Cinema". Chahine is also a member of the Ministry of Culture’s supporting scripts Jury. Recently he returns to INBA to teach in Master Level.

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