Director, Editor, Colorist

Samer Beyhum is a multidisciplinary Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker, editor, post-production specialist, and co-founder of 99%Media Quebec. His work encompasses issues of social justice, the environment, and human rights in an attempt to raise awareness and document these issues for posterity and the hope of change. He holds a BS in Communication Arts with emphasis on Radio, TV, and Film from Excelsior College of New York through the Lebanese American University (LAU) of Beirut, Lebanon. Samer currently works as a TV/Film studio technician at (LAU) where he trains future generations of young Lebanese filmmakers. Some of his works include multi-award winning short documentary "Une histoire syrienne", award winning feature documentary "La charte des distractions", and academically acclaimed feature documentary "Derives".

Associate Producer

Madonna Adib was born in Damascus, Syria, in 1986. She has received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Damascus - Faculty of Fine Arts in 2008. She has experience as a graphic designer and worked as a video editor in various projects. In 2008, she was part of a visual poetry show in the Opera house-Damascus, that combines poetry, dance, music and a 45 minute video that she made. Madonna Adib went on to continue her studies in Film Animation at Concordia University - Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, from which she received a B.A. degree in 2012. She worked in many production houses as a DOP, Video editor, and animator. She created experimental documentaries and experimental short drama films that were screened in film festivals and contemporary art museums in Europe, Canada, Syria, Turkey and other places around the world. She is also one of the six founders and a photographer in the project Syrian Eyes of The World that was created in 2014. She currently lives in Beirut, Lebanon and works as a freelance photographer, editor, animator and an independent filmmaker. In 2016, she worked as a photographer with the Canadian National Film Board for a film that was shot in Beirut, revolving around the Syrian refugee crisis. She is currently working on several projects, including being an associate producer for the film Maram, directed by Samer Beyhum, about a child who sells roses in the streets of the city, as well as being the writer and director of several documentaries and a short fiction, one of which is produced by Parabola Films and the other by Bidayat.

Assistant Director

After finishing high school in Saudi Arabia, Nour enrolled at the Lebanese American University in pursuit of a BA in TV and Film. Since then, Nour has participated in several theatrical productions, taking up multiple roles including acting, in addition to participating in several multi camera live productions, short documentaries, short films, and awareness videos. Nour’s personal works include “In Her Shoes”, a short stop motion video on gender equality produced in her first semester as a TV and Film student, and which was selected to be screen along side senior student films in the spring of 2017.

Director of Photography

Kourken Papazian is a 21 year old Lebanese Armenian who graduated from M&H Arslanian Armenian College and is now pursuing a BA in TV/Film at LAU. Kourken won the first prize in a video competition organized by Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, Abaad, UN Women, and UN ESCWA. The theme of the competition was violence against women in Middle East. Kourken is very active in the Armenian community and has for 10 years participated  in Armenian folk dance groups and for 18 years as a scout. Fighting for freedom, human rights and helping the needy are Kourken’s primary goals.

Sound Designer

Sandra Sayej is a filmmaker, sound recordist and audio designer. Born in Jordan, she attained her International Baccalaureate and decided to move to Lebanon to further reinforce her education and have it focus mainly on film. She received her BA in Communication Arts with Honors from the Lebanese American University in Beirut, during this time she directed two wrote and directed 2 short films, one of which was selected and screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Sandra currently resides in Beirut where she works as an assistant sound engineer and audio designer at One Hertz studios. She maintains a freelance career as a sound recordist, and is currently working on her upcoming short film.

Assistant Camera

Born in Saudi Arabia, Iyad Tchelebi graduated with a BS in Banking & Finance at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He worked as a financial Analyst at a contracting company for 5 years before deciding to follow his passion in Film and is now pursuing a BA in TV/Film at LAU. He directed his first short film Vision in 2016 and directed his first play Cagebirds also 2016. He  acted in several plays and  and stage managed a few of them. Iyad also was Assistant Director for a student short film Brine (2017).

Sound Recordist

Issa Khanji is a senior student at LAU, his experience with sound started three years ago and ever since worked on several numerous projects as a sound engineer varying from a promotional video for the University to a feature documentary for a French entrepreneur.

Production Manager

Lamia Tokatlli, a senior TV/Film major and PR minor student at LAU. Developed an experience

in the domain of design and media marketing with Shaam Insurance Broker company. Worked

as a production manager for short videos and a documentary, along with some experience in the post production phase of a feature film by Spirifilm production house. Has an experience in

working with Adobe Creative Cloud and AVID Media Composer.

Production Manager

Deema Dbouk is a senior LAU student pursuing a BA in TV and Film. Worked in production, post-production, and editing varying from short videos to a feature documentary film. Skilled in Adobe Creative Cloud and AVID Media Composer.

Distribution coordinator

Tracy is an international senior Film student at the Lebanese American University. She has had many experiences with the production department. Her aspirations to become a producer have pushed her to embark on many film sets ranging from independent student films, to TVCs, and ongoing feature Documentary.

Production Assistant

Noha Miari is pursuing a BA degree in TV and Film at the Lebanese American University. Noha has participated in several major theatrical productions, inside and outside LAU, as a crew member or as part of the team filming these plays. She also participated in a few theatre festivals. Noha  also participates  as a crew member in different student film productions.

Production Manager

Judy Srouji is a senior student in the TV/film production program in the Lebanese American University. Since her enrollment she has invested her time in her studies and interests, working on multiple student projects on screen and on stage. Her strongest aspiration is towards screenwriting, hoping to inspire powerful stories

Production Assistant

Nadine Akkad is a Communication Arts graduate from the Lebanese American University (LAU) with a background in Interior Design. During her time at LAU, she has developed a student short movie, commercial, music video and produced a senior student short film and documentary. She is interested in social issues affecting Beirut and hopes to develop future projects concerning them.

Runner

Is self taught artist as well as a writer and renaissance woman that works on projects that have a message.