What you do not know about director Samiha Al-Ghunaimi after her passing… one of the pioneers of Egyptian television

What you do not know about director Samiha Al-Ghunaimi after her passing… one of the pioneers of Egyptian television

2024-02-23 13:05:00

Zaki Makkawi Friday, February 23, 2024 03:05 PM

The great director is gone Samiha Al-Ghunaimi About our world this morning. She is the director who is famous for being one of the pioneer directors on Egyptian television due to the important works she presented and her imprints in the world of documentary films in particular, as appears in the following lines in which we discuss several information regarding her.

Samiha Al-Ghunaimi is one of the most important Egyptian television directors, and her first documentary film was made in 1970, which is called “Deportation Workers.”

Samiha Al-Ghunaimi

That was just the beginning, before she began her journey working in documentary cinema, becoming one of its most important pioneers through an important series of works.

One of the most important of these works is the film The Journey of the Holy Family, which won many awards and was also known for achieving great success when it was shown on Egyptian television.

Director Samiha Al-Ghunaimi and her obituary by director Samia Shalaby

The late director Samiha Al-Ghunaimi was not satisfied with that, but rather presented films that documented the biographies of major Egyptian names and symbols, including the late writer and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, trying to take a different look at him and address his personality through new angles.

It is worth noting that her film regarding the great writer Naguib Mahfouz won the Creativity and Creativity Award at the Monte Carlo Festival.

She was not satisfied with that, but also monitored biographical films regarding the lives of the musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab, the poet Ahmed Ramy, Madiha Yousry, Nadia Lotfy, and Souad Hosni.

Also one of the most important films was a film regarding Pope Shenouda, which received great praise from many circles and large segments of the public who were impressed by the way the film was handled.

The works were not limited to characters only, but rather touched on her attempt to create works regarding the wonderful Egyptian heritage represented by films regarding royal palaces, which included a film regarding Montazah Palace, Abdeen Film, and Qobba Palace, which made her films rise to the level of being films within historical documents.

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