Said Zagha

UKbased Palestinian filmmaker Said Zagha completed his undergraduate education at Ohios Kenyon College in 2011 Hes also a Berlinale Talents alumnus 2020 and has an MA in screenwriting from the London Film School 2022 Most recently Said directed the first and second episodes of Crashing Eid an Arabiclanguage original Netflix series set in Saudi Arabia which stayed on Netflixs top ten charts for over eight weeks including in 32 territories He has also written and directed two short films working with star actors from the Arab world such as Ali Suliman Nisreen Faour and others His second short film Lovesick in the West Bank was released at two Academyqualifying festivals in 2021 Tampere and Urbanworld among many others His debut dramedy short Five Boys and a Wheel premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2016 It played at 40 festivals worldwide winning three awards in Mexico Oman and Algeria He is in the final development stages of his first feature film Weedestine a Palestineset heist thriller which has received support from the Royal Film Commission of Jordan European Audio Visual Entrepreneurs EAVE Frontieres Market Red Sea Film Fund Doha Film Institute and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture AFAC