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Jocelyne Saab

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Directed movies: 28Directed series: 0All crew credits: 32

TMDB ID: 1106257

IMDb ID: nm0754212

Known for: Directing

Born: April 30, 1948

Died: January 7, 2019

Age: 70

Place of birth: Beirut, Lebanon

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1974 - 2018

Years active: 45

Wikidata: Q454431

Also known as

جوسلين صعب

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Director (28)Producer (2)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Jocelyne Saab was a filmmaker and a photographer. She was born in 1948 and grew up in Beirut. In 1973, she became a war reporter in the Middle-East, covering the war of October for Magazine 52, the third television channel in France. In 1975 she directed her first feature film, a documentary released in Parisian cinemas: Lebanon in Turmoil, distributed by Pascale Dauman. She will then cover the Lebanese war for fifteen years, during which she directs almost thirty films, including Beirut, never again, broadcasted on France 2 in 1976, Letter from Beirut and Beirut, my city, broadcasted on France 3 between 1978 and 1982. In 1977 both Egypt, City of the Dead and The Sahara is not up for sale and were shot and released in Parisian cinemas. In 1981, she shots Iran, Utopia in the making on the days following the Iranian revolution, which received several international prizes. In 1998, she went to Vietnam and directed a documentary called The Lady of Saigon, which is awarded best French documentary by the French senate. It’s broadcasted on France 2, and in many international festivals.

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