Antoine Waked

Antoine Waked has a long experience in the field of cinema mentorship and education. He is the development executive at Abbout Productions, the leading film production company in Lebanon, the director of the cinema section at Alba University one of the top filmmaking schools in the country and the co-founder and artistic director of Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival, the only fantastic film festival in the Arab world, and the Maskoon Fantastic Lab which helps develop and package Arab genre films.

Other activities include script consultations for many international films, mentorship in various screenwriting labs, and essays and lectures on Arab genre cinema. He also co-directed the award- winning documentary “A Certain Nasser” about the life of pioneer Lebanese filmmaker Georges Nasser.