Nadine Khan (b. 1981)
Alias:
نادين خان
Birthplace:
Cairo, Egypt
Born:
November 11, 1981
Nadine Khan is a filmmaker living and working between Cairo and London. She earned her BA in film directing from the Egyptian Higher Film Institute in 2001. Since then, she has directed several fiction films, commercials, TV series and music videos. Her debut feature film Chaos, Disorder/ Harag w' Marag won the Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival (2012), and the Best Film award at the Oran Film Festival, Algeria (2013) and the Muscat International Film Festival, Oman (2014). One of Khan's four short films One in a Million (2006) was in the official selections of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), and was acquired by the ZDF Kultur. She has also directed several TV commercials and music videos, and her critically acclaimed TV series Seventh Neighbor/ Saabe' Gaar (produced by CBC, 2017) was met with popular success around the MENA region. In addition to her work as a director, she worked for over ten years as a second unit and first assistant director on several TV commercials with renowned directors including London-based director Rob Sanders and Egyptian director Ali Ali, as well as international feature films produced by DreamWorks, Arte and Pathé, namely La Porte du Soleil/ Bab El Shams (Yousry Nasrallah, 2004), Whatever Lola Wants (Nabil Ayouch, 2007) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay, 2009).