muawia attalah
At a very young age, he liked telling stories in general. He wrote his first short story at age 11 while sitting in class, after class was dismissed and he was asked to stay behind, he thought that punishment was eminent, it was his fifth grade teacher's words of encouragement that made him love writing.
Born to poet father and after writing many poems himself, he combined his love for story telling and poetry by writing scripts which is considered the poetry of writings on many aspects.
It wasn't until he moved to the United States, where he first studied acting and later directing, the first led him to be on the Hollywood film set of "Against The Ropes" with Meg Ryan and Omar Epps directed by Charles S. Dutton and while on the set, watching everything going on behind "making the film", he realized that's where he belongs, behind the camera on the creative side of story telling; and that led him to the latter.
filmography
2008 He wrote, directed and produced his first experimental short comedy "EspressO" which premiered in Jordan International Film Festival 2008.
2010 He wrote, directed and produced his second short romantic comedy "Spellfound", which was part of the short film corner in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival 2011.
2013 He wrote , directed and produced his third short film " Shalam?".
He has also written the screenplay for the feature film "Roving wiretaps" which is currently in pre-production.
Recently, he committed his time to run Jood Films where it's dedicated mission is to produce motion pictures that hope to make a difference and create awareness of real issues, while artistically elite and satisfying .