Rania Stephan

Professions:

Director

Producer

Field(s) of expertise:

Cinema

Areas of Impact:

Arts

Rania Stephan

Film Director, Writer, Producer

+961 3 048864

Education:

Master's degree, Cinema Studies, 1986, Paris VIII university, France.
Bachelor degree (with honors), 1982, Cinema Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
French Baccalaureate (part 2), 1978, French Protestant College, Lebanon.

Previous Professions:

Editor for the film Waiting for Abo Zayd, a documentary directed by Mohamed Ghali Atassi, which won the International Jury Prize and the Médiathèque Prize at the Marseille Documentary Film Festival, 2010.
Camera and Editor for the film The Procession of the Captives, a documentary directed by Sabrina Mervin, awarded at the French Festival, 2006.
Camera and Editor for the film Rituals in Lebanon, an ongoing project at the French Institute in the Middle East in Beirut, Lebanon.
Assistant Director for Elia Suleiman, from 2000 to 2002, Divine Intervention, Ognon Pictures Productions, France, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, 2002.
Assistant Director for Simone Bitton on the films Rachel (2009) and The Wall (2004), which won the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, 2004, Ciné-Sud Promotion.

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

Stephan, R. (Writer & Director). (in progress). The Three Disppearances of Suad Hosni.
Stephan, R. (Writer & Director). (2009). DAMAGE, for Gaza the land of sad oranges[Short film]. Beirut: Ashkal Alwan & Rania Stephan.
Stephan, R. (Writer & Director). (2007). Smoke on water: 7 x el hermel [Documentary]. Lens on lebanon, El Hermel Public Library, & Rania Stephan.
Stephan, R. (Writer & Director). (2006). Lebanon/War [Documentary]. Beirut: Rania Stephan with the support of the Institut Français du Proche Orient (IFPO).
Stephan, R. (Writer & Director). (2005). Wastelands [Documentary]. Beirut: Rania Stephan & Forward Productions, with the support of the Institut Français du Proche Orient (IFPO).
Stephan, R. (Writer & Director). (1999). train-trains (where's the track ?) [Documentary]. Ayloul Festival, The Post Office, & Rania Stephan.

Newspaper articles and columns:

Stephan, R. (2008, 27 August). Terrains vagues [Wasteland] , Études contemporaines, 1, retrieved September 8, 2010 from http://ifpo.revues.org/114

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