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Achmed Abdel-Salam

Biography

Achmed Abdel-Salam was born in 1983 in Vienna, Austria. His passion for storytelling developed as early as his childhood, when he would draw his favorite cartoon characters, creating whole new adventures for them. In 2010 Achmed was accepted at the Filmacademy Vienna where he studied Screenwriting and Dramaturgy, receiving his bachelor’s degree in 2014. 


Achmed has written numerous shorts and feature films. In 2013 his feature film treatment
The Edge won him the Carl Mayer Young Talent Prize at the Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film. The following year he was awarded a screenwriting scholarship by the Literar Mechana, an Austrian copyright collecting society. 2023 saw the release of his feature film debut SMOTHER, a psychological horror film.

Copyright: Ina Manuguerra

Vita
Born
1983, Vienna
Education
Screenwriting at the Filmacademy Vienna
Occupation
Autor, Regisseur, Darsteller
Contact
Awards
2013
Carl Mayer Young Talent Prize
2014
Screenwriting Scholarship by the Literar Mechana
2017
SYLFF Young Leaders Fellowship der Tokyo Foundation
2017
Finalist beim Drehbuchwettbewerb "If She Can See It, She Can Be It"
Achmed Abdel-Salam