Country: 
Lebanon
Associated organisations: 
Company
Professions: 
Manager
Producer
Field(s) of expertise: 
Cinema
Areas of Impact: 
Arts

Personal information

Carol Mansour
Film Director, Producer

Contact information (Private)

+961 3 232 420

Contact information (Work)

Forward Film Production
+961 1 451 354
+961 3 432 420

Social Media

Work history

Previous Professions: 
  • Founder, Manager, Director and Producer, 2000 - present, Forward Film Production.
  • Editor, Director, Producer, 1992 - 1999, Future Television.

Major Achievements

Publications (Books, Articles, Reports, etc.): 

Feature-length Documentary films:

  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2018). Shukran Soma [Thank you Soma]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & International Labor Organization. (55 minutes; examining the relationship between a young Lebanese woman and the migrant domestic worker who raised her.
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2018). La shaghleh wala amelh [Men on Hold]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Heinrich Boll Stiftung Middle East. (42 minutes; examining the plight of Syrian refugee men in Lebanon.
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2017). Khouyout al sard  [Stitching Palestine]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Inaash & Taawon. (72 minutes; Twelve women share their stories of Palestine on the backdrop of traditional embroidery.
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2016).  [It’s just another place]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Lebanese Down Syndrome Association. (36 minutes; experiences of people living with Down Syndrome and their families.
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2014). La sabil ila al-'awda al-'an, ya sadiqi [we cannot go there now, my dear]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Heinrich Boll Stiftung Middle East. (42 minutes; highlighting the double-refugee experience of Palestinians from Syria).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2013). Nihna mou heik [not Who we are]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Heinrich Boll Stiftung Middle East. (71 minutes; highlighting the plight of Syrian refugee women in Lebanon).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2012). Badna naaref [we want to know]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & the International Center for Transitional Justice. (42 minutes; exploring the memory of the Lebanese civil war).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2011). Keef halak [where do I begin]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Medecins Sans Frontiere. (36 minutes; examining mental health issues and services in Lebanon).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2011). Kulluna lil watan [All for the nation]. [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Collective for Research and Training on Development - Action. (52 minutes; examining the inability of Lebanese women to give the nationality to spouses and children).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2010). I come from a beautiful place [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & UNHCR. (33 minutes; highlighting Iraqi and Sudanese refugees in Lebanon).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2009). Voices from Yemen [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Ministry of Labor in Yemen. (30 minutes; highlighting the challenges facing Yemeni working women).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2008). Maid in Lebanon 2: Voices from home [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & International Labor Organization. (40 minutes; Highlighting the connection of female migrant domestic workers with their home countries).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2007). A summer not to forget [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production. (27 minutes; a chronicle of the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2006). Invisible children [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & International Labor Organization. (26 minutes; Child Labor)
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2006). 100% Asphalt [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production. (26 minutes; Street Children of Cairo).
  • Mansour, C. (Director). (2005). Maid in Lebanon [Documentary]. Beirut: Forward Film Production & Caritas. (27 minutes; Highlighting the plight of female migrant domestic worker
Major achievements: 
  • Founder and owner of Forward Film Production.
  • 15 documentaries covering various issues related to social justice and human rights.
  • Director of several short films, TV spots, and Promotions for various NGOs, INGOs, academic institutions, and private sector institutions.
Exhibitions, lectures & performances: 
  • 2021 Sister hood, Film 
  • 2020 Shatterred: Beirut 6:07, Film

Accomplishments

Distinctions: 
  • Jury’s Special Mention for Not Who We Are, Festival International du Film Oriental de Genève, Switzerland, 2014
Awards: 
  • Best Documentary Award for Stitching Palestine at the Delhi International Film Festival in 2018.
  • Audience Award for Best Feature Film for Stitching Palestine at the Boston Palestine Film Festival, 2017.
  • Best Documentary Award for We cannot go there now, my dear at the Al-Ard Film Festival in Sardegna, 2015.
  • Women Film Critics Circle Award for We cannot go there now, my dear at Rated SR Festival 2015 in New York, 2015.
  • Best Documentary for Not Who We Are, Rated SR: Socially Relevant Film Festival, New York, USA, 2014.
  • Jury’s Award for A summer not to forget, Sole Luna Film Festival – Palermo, Italy, 2009.
  • Best short documentary award for A summer not to forget, International Film Festival, New Zeeland, 2007.
  • Best short documentary for 100% asphalt, Down Under Documentary Festival, Australia, 2001.
  • Jury’s Award for 100% asphalt, Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Rotterdam, 2000.
  • Best documentary for 100% asphalt , Arab film festival, Rotterdam, 2000.

Competences & Skills

Field(s) of Expertise: 
  • Directing, Editing, and Producing Films
  • Script Writing
Languages: 
  • Arabic
  • French
  • English