Ali Laylan
Born in Damascus in 1958. He worked in the General Cinema Corporation in 1976 as a montage assistant, and has edited dozens of feature films and short films from 1976 until 1991. Joined the Artists Syndicate in 1987. Some of his feature films as Assistant Editor and Editor Assistant are: Oral letters, nights jackals, dreams of the city, night, daylight stars, the sun on a cloudy day. After that, he moved to work as a major comister in dozens of short films, and 63 feature films long between the Public Corporation for Cinema and the private sector films, and from these films was the first major comuter "Ah Ya Bahr" directed by Muhammad Shaheen, (The Rise of the Rain), (Breeze of the Spirit) ), (Qumran and Zaitouna), (Farah Al-Khamis), (What the listeners ask), (Out of Coverage), (Days of Boredom), all directed by Abdel Latif Abdel Hamid, (Damascus, Basma Al-Sadn) directed by Maher Kido, (Seven minutes to Midnight (directed by Walid Huraib, (under the ceiling) directed by Nidal Al-Debs, (again) directed by Jood Saeed, (ID) and (Al-Sheraa and Al-Asifa) directed by Ghassan Shamit, (Guardians of the Deaf) C) Directed by Samir Zekry. Montage has produced about 17 feature films for the private sector. And about 150 short narratives and documentaries. He won the "Best Editing" award for "Breeze of the Soul" at the first Arab Cinema Festival in Bahrain. He has undergone several montage courses on most of the major montage platforms in London, France, and within Dubai Media City. The Artists Syndicate honored him for all his works in 2002. He has produced and is still producing a large number of films for the Young Cinema Support Project.