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Koutaiba Al Janabi is a British-based Iraqi filmmaker, director and photographer born in Baghdad, who documented ''Wasteland: Between London and Baghdad'' and the 2010 award-winning film, (Leaving Baghdad ). ==Biography== Koutaiba Al Janabi (Member of the Hungarian Society of Cinematographers,HSC) is a UK-based Iraqi film director and cinematographer, scriptwriter. Koutaiba was born in Baghdad, he studied in Budapest, Hungary first photo journalism (http://www.kezmuves-prateru.sulinet.hu) with his diploma project about the Palestinian refugee camps in the Lebanon. He then attended the Budapest Academy of Drama and Cinema (http://www.budapestfilmacademy.com/index.php?lang=en), qualifying as a cinematographer. He studied under Lajos Koltai Oscar winning cinematographer (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005759/) and the “Hungarian style” of lighting and composition influenced his work significantly. He worked in the Hungarian film and television industry and also completed a PhD on the aesthetics and history of Arabic cinema at ELTE University (http://www.elte.hu/) before relocating to London. Koutaiba worked as a cinematographer on various films, produced and directed programmes for MBC (http://www.mbc.net/ar.html) and produced/directed his own short films and documentaries, eventually moving into scriptwriting and directing feature films. The first feature film Koutaiba wrote/directed/produced was "Leaving Bagdhad" (2011, www.leavingbaghdadfilm.com). Independently produced, the film was well received and won several awards, prizes and is being shown at various festivals and screenings - Raindance, the British Film Institute, the Gulf Film Festival, festivals in Ghent, Monaco, Sweden, Thailand, Fiji, Spain, Germany, Iran etc. selected "Leaving Baghdad" for their programmes. The main themes in Al-Janabi’s work, both in film and in photography are displacement, alienation, exile. Feature project in pre-production: "The Window" (teaser trailer shot in Baghdad, available on Vimeo) Al-Janabi’s early films are published as a DVD under the title "Stories of Passers Through" His photographic work is widely published and exhibited (Foto Magazin Hungary, British Journal of Photography, Black and White magazine, Various Middle Eastern publications) and he also produced two collections of his photographic work in his books "Far from Baghdad" and “Foreign Light” Filmography FEATURE FILMS Leaving Baghdad Feature film (2010) Director/Writer - BIFA winner, Cinema for Peace nominee, Gulf Film Festival prize winner, Monaco Film Festival prize winner etc. (http://celinejulie.blogspot.co.uk/2012_02_01_archive.html) http://www.bifa.org.uk/winners/2011 SHORT FILM AND DOCUMENTARIES • 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Koutaiba Al Janabi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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