Private Project

Winter Ballad

the story of a woman who is living in a world at war

  • May Kassem
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Feature, Other
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 42 minutes 16 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 16, 2019
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - May Kassem

Born in Beirut in 1975, May Kassem is a filmmaker, screenwriter, radio producer, music composer and teacher, who has made 16mm films, videos, documentaries, and animated films.
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In the Spring of 2017, she was granted an artist residency through the French Institute at the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, for a very personal film project around memory, her personal video, audio and photo archive, the cities of Beirut and Paris,& political and social struggle over time. Two film projects were born out of this residency, a totally independent fiction “Winter Ballad” (1h42m) in which she also acts, and a documentary (a trilogy on cities: Paris, Beirut, New York) on which she is currently working: writing, shooting, editing.
May presents two music programs on 96.2 FM Radio Liban « Poivre Noir, Piment Rouge » (world music) as well as « Champ Sonore » (electronic, contemporary music, and sound-scapes).

May lives in Beirut. For the time being.
for more info: https://maykassem.wixsite.com/maykassem

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