Youssef Hesham

Youssef Hesham was born on Jun 27, 1985 in Egypt. Youssef Hesham's big-screen debut came with Lamh el-Basar directed by Youssef Hesham in 2012.

Youssef Hesham is a film director, writer, producer, and editor with MFA degree if Film and Media Arts from Emerson College (2020) Winner of The President's Award from Emerson College, Class 2020, for his Thesis film, The NEw Tenant. He was awarded the Fulbright Grant in 2017. His Thesis film, The New Tenant, won The President's Award at Emerson College, Boston in May 2020. He studied TV broadcasting as an undergraduate while studying film separately. He started working professionally in 2003.Since 2003 Youssef has directed thirteen short fiction and documentary. His body of work has different styles and genres with themes on identity, society, loneliness and violence. In 2011, Youssef started writing film articles/studies about world filmmakers and modern films, and they were published in El Kahira newspaper, a publication held by the Egyptian ministry of culture specialized in arts and literature. He worked as a selection committee member for Cairo International Film Festival in 2012, 2014, and 2017 and Ismailiya International Film Festival in 2013. He worked as a competition manager for the "Real Time Competition" in Shnit World Festival in 2016 and 2017 editions. Beside writing, directing, producing films and festival programming, Youssef also worked as a filmmaking instructor.