Aya Dowara
Project Manager & Film Producer
HerStory Films
About us
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Vision
HerStory Films is a film production company, founded by May Abdel Asim and Mona Zaki, that will exclusively produce female filmmakers in Egypt and the Arab world. HerStory Films will work to empower, connect and enable female filmmakers across the region to create a collective impact and change the narrative.
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Mission
The HerStory Film Incubator for female filmmakers aims to create opportunities for women, change the narrative on gender through film and empower generations of potential female filmmakers to create films and express themselves through this art form.
Founders
May Abdel Asim
May Abdel Asim looks back on 21 years of work experience of which 17 years as an entrepreneur, founding and managing the boutique creative agency Media & More as well as two respected publications, What Women Want…Magazine and The Travel Mag.
Mindfood Publications is the latest business launched in 2020, as the first Publishing
House designed to exclusively publish female authors.
With the launch of “What Women Want…Magazine” in 2006 she entered the field of bmedia and publishing followed by the now discontinued travel magazine “The Travel Mag”.
Team
Toaa Omar
Project Coordinator
About the Program
HerStory Film Incubator
This is a call for female film directors to apply to HerStory Film Incubator with their short film projects. In today’s ever evolving creative scene, providing an opportunity for women to find themselves and gain their place in the industry is an essential step, not only to develop their artistic skills, but also to bring their perspective to the process and the story.
