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Jehane Noujeim is an Egyptian American documentary film director best-known for her films Control Room and Startup.com.

Career

Jehane Noujaim began her career as a photographer and filmmaker in Cairo, Egypt, where she grew up. She moved to Boston in 1990, where she attended Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude in Visual Arts and Philosophy in 1996. The same year, before her graduation, Noujaim was awarded theGardiner fellowship under which she directed Mokattam, an Arabic film about a garbage collecting village near Cairo in Egypt. She joined the MTV News and Documentary division as a producer for the documentary series, Unfiltered. Noujaim left her producing job at MTV to produce and direct Startup.com in association with Pennebaker Hedgedus Films. The feature length, highly acclaimed documentary has won numerous distinguished awards including the DGA and IDA Awards for best documentary. She has since worked in both the Middle East and the US as a director and cinematographer on various documentaries including Born Rich (Jamie Johnson), Only the Strong Survive (Miramax Films), and Down from the Mountain (Cohen Brothers). In 2004, she directed the feature length, highly acclaimed film Control Room: Different Channels. Different Truth, a documentary about US Central Command and its relations with Al Jazeera and other news organizations that covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

External links

• Noujaim Films
• Official Control Room website
• Jehane Noujaim's 26 min TEDPrize Talk at TED Conference (2006) Monterey, CA.
• International Trailer
• Metacritic - Control Room review collection
• Rotten Tomatoes - Control Room review collection
• Open Directory Project - Control Room directory category

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