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Dalia Musaad
THE BOY WHO CRIED FISH!
USA, 2015, 18’
THE BOY WHO CRIED FISH!
Miranda’s life falls into pieces when her son, Adam, wouldn’t take off her blue bra.
After accidentally watching a violent incident on Television, Adam carries the burden of what he saw to face a similar situation.
As a single mother of a child on the spectrum, Miranda finds a way of coping when she understands how the personal intertwines with the universal.
Dalia Musaad
Dalia Musaad was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She came from a computer science background and it wasn’t until she was 23 that she started pursuing her passion for filmmaking. In 2008, she quit her job and started making low budget films at the Jesuit Cairo Cinema school. She was applauded for her personal, multi-layered stories and surreal characters. Afterwards she joined the leading film industry in Egypt as editor and colorist in major film and TV productions. Her short debut “The boy who cried Fish” is premiering at Dances with Films festival, and has won the IndieFest award of Excellence for Best Woman Filmmaker, Grand Jury award: Honorable mention at Dances with Films and Best Debut Filmmaker at Female Eye Film Festival. Dalia is now lead editor on the feature documentary “Full circle” directed by Sean Lennon and produced by Yoko Ono.
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