Nesma Zazou is an Egyptian independent Writer/director with more than nine-year experience in media industry and filmmaking. She finished her Master degree in Film Directing at Met Film School, the University of West London in 2016. Her stories artistically aim at exploring and portraying the lives, inspirations, and struggles of people. She believes that visual storytelling can inspire audiences and achieve a tangible impactful change and that nothing can inspire people like other people’s stories, challenges, and struggles. In her beginnings, she worked as a freelance journalist with some Egyptian magazines and newspapers. At the age of 17, Nesma joined “Kelmetna” magazine as a freelance journalist and at 2010 she became the main director in charge of KTV (the very first youth You Tube channel in Egypt the), which produced the sitcom: “Yes we can’t”. Also, she worked as a teaching assistant at the faculty of mass media and communication, Tv and Radio Department, at October 6 University in Cairo where she graduated. In 2012, she joined “El Watan” news website as a director and video journalist. She directed and produced more than 100 news reports most of them as a one man crew, online Ads & TV promos, news features, live streams, documentaries, video clips, Web programs and interviews. She also directed independently a number of short movies, documentaries, and a music video. Her work was showed by some Egyptian satellite channels and gained a good online viewership. Nesma covered the presidential elections in both U.S.A and Egypt in 2012. Also in 2013, she participated in high production T.V series “Pharaoh” as an assistant director. She worked with various clients in Egypt like the American University in Cairo, the population council, and the Swedish Embassy. She loves teaching filmmaking and enjoys it. Since she spent many years in learning filmmaking she dedicates her filmmaking experience to pass it on to any passionate talent regardless his/her age or education background through her independent workshops. She taught filmmaking and acting classes to impoverished youth through some NGOs in Cairo, Delta, and Upper Egypt. Her short movie “Silhouette” was awarded third place for "Best Directing" in the Digital Filmmaking workshop in Egypt presented by the American director “Barry Braverman” and her film “Sayeda” participated in the short film corner at Festival de Cannes 2017. Nesma is writing and developing for her 1st feature film..