Amman, August 27 – The Cinema Committee at Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation will host Dr. Mona Al-Sabban for a dialogue titled “How to Produce Your Film from Home” tomorrow, Thursday, at 6:00 PM at the Shoman Cultural Forum.
The session is part of the foundation’s Cinema Club program, which organizes monthly discussions for cinema enthusiasts to explore diverse cinematic topics. Dr. Al-Sabban will cover key themes including the Arab School of Cinema and Television, its vision and goals in film education, and the opportunities and challenges of distance learning in cinema, including online training in screenwriting, directing, cinematography, editing, and sound.
Dr. Mona Al-Sabban is a Professor of Editing at the Higher Institute of Cinema in Egypt (Academy of Arts) and a prominent member of the Arab Filmmakers Association at the American University. She has held positions at the Lebanese University and the Higher Institute of Cinema and graduated with a specialization in editing. In 1997, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to train at Hollywood studios and attend lectures at Boston University’s College of Communication.
She founded the Arab School for Distance Cinema and Television Education, the first online platform in the Arab world dedicated to cinema studies, offering courses in directing, editing, screenwriting, cinematography, sound, set design, and animation. Dr. Al-Sabban has supervised numerous Master’s and PhD theses, delivered workshops across the Arab world, and authored several books, including “I and the Montage”, “The Art of Montage in Television Drama and the World of Electronic Film”, and “Creative Montage: A study in the historical development of the dimensions of montage creation, among others”.
Her contributions have been recognized with the State Excellence Award in Arts (2021) and in 2024, she was honored with the “Ideal Woman Award” during the Egyptian Women and Ideal Mother Celebration, in recognition of her ground breaking contributions to film education and the development of editing in the Arab world.