Miryam Sassine

Miryam Sassine is a producer.  She majored in audiovisual studies and received a Master's degree in Cinema Research. In 2010, she joined Abbout Productions producing several features and documentaries such as Costa Brava, Lebanon by Mounia Akl, All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein, 1982 by Oualid Mouaness, Panoptic by Rana Eid and Amal by Mohamed Siam. From 2016 to 2020, she was the COO of Schortcut Films dedicated to co-producing international films such as Félicité by Alain Gomis and This Must be Heaven by Elia Suleiman. In 2016, she cofounded Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival, the first and only genre film festival in the Middle East and acts as the festival’s executive director. Since 2021, she is the Project Manager of Beirut Cinema Platform, Beirut DC’s coproduction platform for the Arab region.