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Network television director and producer with years of experience in media especially television production. I started in MBC as an assistant producer in a reality TV show then moved on to produce and direct public service announcements and short films for the Department of Health in Orange county Florida where I got my master in Art in film and Digital media. My documentary film, which I directed and produced, has been screened in the SOUQ film festival in Milan, Hong Kong , Jakarta and Los Angeles and it also won awards at the International film festival for documentaries, short and comedy in Jakarta and the Filmmaker of the year film festival.

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Content Producer
Imagic
September 2015 - December 2015

 Producing content for the first interactive game show in the Middle East  "إسأل العرب” for MBC1 channel. Preparing the episodes and selecting the questions and visual content, which goes with each question.

Director and Producer
Discovery Communications

Feb 2011 - Nov 2014

My role included producing and directing Prime time shows from set design to production and post-production up to airing, writing scripts and directing promos for each show in addition to Channel packaging and promos. Also hiring production staff and training, creating content for the digital media and social media outlets to promote the shows and engage the audiences.

Produced and directed 400 cooking lessons in addition to short recipes with client product integration, as well as several short videos and packaging material for the channel.

I was also in charge of managing the studio operations as well as the entire company's inventory system.

 

 

 

Story Producer
Endemol Egypt

June 2010 -Aug 2010



I worked as a story Producer for a reality TV talent show for children. In this show I worked on preparing ideas for filming and worked with other story producers on segment ideas and interview questions for the contestants.

 

 

 

Director and Producer
Independent
2008 - 2013



Producer and director of a documentary called ‘The bridge” about the cross-cultural conflicts between the Arabs and the Americans. This entailed travelling and conducting interviews in various cities in the United States and the UAE, researching topics to be covered.It premiered in the SOUQ film festival in Milan and was nominated for two awards as well as nominated for the American online film Awards. It has also been screened in Hong Kong and Jakarta and won the Golden award and Merit Award at 2 other festivals.

 

Director and Producer
University of Central Florida Women Research Center
2010 



I directed and produced a short film for the National Engineering Week in the US. It was aired on PBS channel and was screened in the conference for the National Engineering week all around the US. This included writing scripts according to the client’s requirements, scouting locations for the shoot, casting the spokes people for the script, interviewing various people in different locations and directing and producing the film with a small but coherent team which I managed

 

Director and Producer
University of Central Florida Women Research Center
2009



I directed and produced a short film about dangers of tobacco for Seminole County Department of health. This included writing scripts according to the client’s requirements, scouting locations for the shoot, casting the spokes people for the script, interviewing various people in different locations and directing and producing the film with a small but coherent team which I managed

 

Director and Producer
University of Central Florida Women Research Center
2008

 

I directed and produced a PSA (Public Service announcement) for Orange County Department of health about smoking amongst teenagers. This entitled meeting with the client for requirements, filming and directing the idea and the events required and working with the editor to produce the PSA in post production

 

 

 

 

Alia Diab

 

 

University of Central Florida
M.A. Film and Digital Media

2007- 2009

 

 

University of Wollongong
B.S. Computer Science
2001 - 2004





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