Maggie Morgan is an Egyptian filmmaker, festival programmer, mentor and consultant. She has directed both feature films and shorts. Her feature films include From Within Their Stories, Asham, and From Meir to Meir. Her documentary From Meir to Meir received the prize for best Egyptian film at Aswan International Film Festival 2021, the Special Jury Prize at National Film Festival 2021, and the Ahmed Bakry Prize at All-Quds International Film Festival 2021. Her latest documentary, The Memoirs of M.A. Draz, premiered at the Aswan International Women’s Film Festival in April 2024 and won the Special Jury Prize and the prize for Best Euro-Mediterranean Film (ex-aequo.) She has been a programmer with the Cairo International Film Festival since 2019. She lives in Egypt and is an adjunct of the film faculty at the American University in Cairo.
Film director, producer and teacher
Country of origin
Egypt
Articles
The Locarno Film Festival is not Cannes. There are no red carpets and grand entries and no photographers vying for the attention of stars. In fact, stars are not the highlight of the event. Actors and actresses—many of them famous — do attend the Locarno festival but manage to blend into the crowd and not create commotion. Unlike Cannes, the festival screenings are open to the public. Maggie Morgan, Cairo, member of the Ecumenical Jury Locarno 2006, reports about the festival
Current issues
INTERFILM member Hans-Martin Gutmann traces a narrative arc from his departure for the KVIFF 2026, through his work on the festival’s Ecumenical Jury and its decision on the winner, right up to his return.
Obituary for the cultural politician, director of various film festivals and promoter of world cinema. By Peter Ciaccio, president of the Associazione protestante del cinema "Roberto Sbaffi".
Events
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