Egypt to document cinematic heritage
The Egyptian Ministry of Culture’s National Center for Cinema has launched a project to digitize information about major players in the Egyptian film industry over the decades.
The National Center for Cinema is set to digitize the archives, files and documents of workers in the Egyptian film industry.
The project aims to digitize the files of 800 major film stars and artists, including Faten Hamama, Shoukry Sarhan, Adel Imam, Ahmed Zaki, Mahmoud Abdel Azizi, Mahmoud Yassin, Soad Hosny, Gamil Ratib, Shwikar, Laila Elwi, Nabila Ebeid and many more.
It is being done through the Cinematic Culture Center and under the supervision of Egyptian screenwriter and film critic Magdy al-Shahry.
The project also includes the files and documents of those who have played a major part of the Egyptian film industry, most notably directors Youssef Chahine, Hassan al-Imam, Henry Barakat, Atef el-Tayeb, Mohamed Khan, Ali Badrakhan, Mohamed Karim, Kamal el-Sheikh, Shadi Abdel Salam, Ashraf Fahmy, Mohamed Fadel, Yahya al-Alami, Houssam El-Din Mustafa and others.
