Shady Srour

Shady Srour is an actor, scriptwriter, director, and producer for cinema, theater, and TV, and a lecturer at the Open University. He has Bachelor's degree from Tel-Aviv University in theater acting and a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking from the Academy of Art University. Most recently, Srour was involved in the film 24 Hours Jerusalem (arte), which won the 2014 German TV Award for best mid-length documentary. He was the lead in the Oscar®-nominated short film Ave Maria. Holy Air is his feature debut as director.

Mill Valley Film Festival