BIOGRAPHY
Omar Robert Hamilton is an independent filmmaker, producer of the annual Palestine Festival of Literature and founding member of the Mosireen Collective in Cairo.
He is in pre-production on his third short film, Though I Know the River is Dry - a crowdsourced short film, shooting in Palestine in early 2012. His first short, When I Stretch Forth Mine Hand, an experimental film made in collaboration with Suheir Hammad’s poetry screened at fifteen international festivals. His second, Maydoum, recently premiered in competition at the 2010 Dubai International Film Festival, and stars Khalid Abdalla (United 93, the Kite Runner).
His films have appeared on al Jazeera, ON TV and Tahrir TV, his articles in the Guardian, the BBC and the Big Issue and his photographs in the Guardian, BBC News, the Economist, al Shorouq and the Daily Beast.
He is in pre-production on his third short film, Though I Know the River is Dry - a crowdsourced short film, shooting in Palestine in early 2012. His first short, When I Stretch Forth Mine Hand, an experimental film made in collaboration with Suheir Hammad’s poetry screened at fifteen international festivals. His second, Maydoum, recently premiered in competition at the 2010 Dubai International Film Festival, and stars Khalid Abdalla (United 93, the Kite Runner).
His films have appeared on al Jazeera, ON TV and Tahrir TV, his articles in the Guardian, the BBC and the Big Issue and his photographs in the Guardian, BBC News, the Economist, al Shorouq and the Daily Beast.
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