Sama Waly & Rodrigo Brum
The Film Residency
Sama Waly & Rodrigo Brum
VITA
Sama Waly lives and works in Cairo. She received her MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently directing a short film “Sorry, No Soy Fidel”, as well as her ongoing project, “She wrote, and even skies and mountains too die alone”. Her first feature-length documentary “My Father Looks Like Hassan Fathy” received the Graham Foundation grant (2019) for development and presentation. Since 2011, she has exhibited and published her work in Cairo, Chicago, and internationally. Since 2018, Sama has been training full-time, in several styles of Kung Fu Martial Arts.Rodrigo Brum (*1987) is a Brazilian filmmaker, currently based in Cairo. He holds an MA in Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). He recently directed his first feature documentary, “Like Someone Who Hears a Very Sad Song” (in post-production), shot in the Cape Verdean archipelago, where he lived for almost a year. In Cairo, he works on his second feature-length, “My Father Looks Like Hassan Fathy”, and is part of the team of Ambient Light, a production company based in Egypt, where he produces the feature documentary “Za’atari Captains” (in post-production), directed by Ali Elarabi, and the documentary “Warda: l’algérienne" (in development), directed by Souheila Battou. His work has been supported by several grants and fellowships, including a MacDowell Fellowship (2017), and more recently the Graham Foundation Grant (2019), among many others. Rodrigo has taught philosophy and filmmaking in institutions in Brazil, United States, Cape Verde, and Egypt, where he worked as a visiting fellow at the Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (CILAS).