Adolf El Assal

Born in Alexandria Egypt in 1981 Adolf El Assal grew up in Dubai London and Luxembourg After graduating with a MA in Filmmaking from Kingston University in the United Kingdom he won his spurs while working on several video clips and TV shorts and worked as a producer on Divizionz 2008 which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and went on to be selected at over 100 festivals He has since directed a couple of short films including the awardwinning La Fameuse Route 2011 and Mano de Dios 2011 He completed his first feature The Notorious Guys in 2014 Sawah 2019 is his latest feature film