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
Festivals
Current issues
Mythical figures and images from the worlds of culture, sport and politics formed the subject matter of some of the films screened at DocFest Sheffield 2026. Peter Paul Huth explores them.
The extent to which the documentary film has evolved was once again evident this year at DocFest Sheffield (10–15 June 2026). The classic ideal of Direct Cinema or Cinéma Vérité has given way to a wide variety of cinematic possibilities. Report by Peter Paul Huth.
Events
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