Talent Guide

Myriam Sassine

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Producing Lab 2019

Bio

Myriam Sassine majored in audiovisual studies and received an M.A. in Cinema Research. In 2010, she joined Abbout Productions producing several features and documentaries such as Tramontane by Vatche Boulghourjian (Cannes Critic’s Week 2016), All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein (Venice Critic’s Week 2019), 1982 by Oualid Mouaness (TIFF 2019), Panoptic by Rana Eid (Locarno 2017) and Amal by Mohamed Siam (Idfa 2017). Since 2016, Myriam is also the COO of Schortcut Films where she’s dedicated to co-producing international films and the Executive Director of Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival, which she co-founded.

Current Project

Costa Brava, Lebanon

Logline

The Badri family lives in the Lebanese mountains away from the country's pollution until the government decides to build a landfill right outside their house.