Ziad Doueiri

Ziad Doueiri ( ; born October 7, 1963) is a Lebanese film director, cinematographer and writer. He is best known for his award-winning films West Beirut (1998) and The Insult (2017), a film that was nominated at the 90th Academy Awards, representing Lebanon in the Best International Feature Film category. Personal life and career Ziad Doueiri was born in Beirut in 1963 and grew up there during the civil war, where he shot his personal films with an 8 mm camera. At the age of 20, he left Lebanon during the civil war to go study in the United States, and graduated in 1986 from San Diego State University with a degree in cinema, then worked with Quentin Tarantino as camera assistant then cinematographer for movies such as Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs. In 1998 Ziad Doueiri wrote and directed his first feature film West Beirut, which received international fame, which starrs his brother Rami Doueiri. The film was followed by Lila Says, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. Doueiri worked between Los Angeles and Beirut until 2011 after which he returned to work from Beirut.