Bassem Breish

Born in Lebanon 1978, Breish is an Emmy Award winning scriptwriter and director; he started his career as an actor in Lebanon and the UK: (Blind Flight, 2003) and (Hamburg Cell, 2004), before altering into writing and directing. Since 2007, Breche has directed three short films: Both (2007), premiering at Cannes' Critics week, Ziu (2013) and Free Range (2014) touring and collecting different awards in film festivals. As a scriptwriter, Breche has written a various amount of web series and films: (Shankaboot, 2009-2011, International Digital Emmy Award, 2011), (Fasateen 2012), (The Little Drop, 2015), (Undocumented, 2017) and (Aleph, 2018). Breche is the founder/director of Scenario Beirut a collective of screenwriters based in Beirut.