Ziad Doueiri

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Director
Writer

Amin Jaafari is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his adopted homeland and enters the Palestinian territories in pursuit of the truth. Once there, he finds himself in ever more dangerous places and situations. Determined, he presses on seeking answers to questions he never thought he would be asking.

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The Attack (2012)

Ziad Doueiri (born in 1963) is a Lebanese-born cinematographer, film director and writer. He is best known for his award winning film West Beirut. At the age of 18, during the Lebanese civil war, Ziad leaves Lebanon to study in the US. He now lives in France and works in Europe and the US. Doueiri first gained notice from his work under Quentin Tarantino as camera assistant for movies that include Jackie Brown (film), From Dusk Till Dawn, Pulp Fiction, and Reservoir Dogs. Doueiri worked between Los Angeles and Beirut until not long after September 11, 2011, after which he returned to work from Beirut.

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Awards
- 31 wins & 21 nominations

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The Insult

7.6

Director

2017

The Attack

7.1

Director

2012

West Beirut

7.6

Director

1998

Lila dit ça

6.9

Director

2004

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Camera and Electrical Department

Cousin Bette
6.2
- focus puller
- 1998
Jackie Brown
7.5
- first assistant camera
- 1997
Stand-ins
4.8
- first assistant camera
- 1997
Trial and Error
5.8
- first assistant camera: "a" camera
- 1997
The Second Civil War
6.6
TV Movie
- first assistant camera: "b" camera
- 1997
From Dusk Till Dawn
7.2
- first assistant camera
- 1996
Four Rooms
6.7
- camera operator
- first assistant camera
- 1995
The Expert
4.6
- first assistant camera
- first assistant camera: title sequence
- 1995
The Fear
3.9
- first assistant camera
- 1995
Tales from the Crypt
8.0
TV Series
- first assistant camera
- 1994–1995
Across the Moon
4.8
- first assistant camera
- 1994
Pulp Fiction
8.9
- first assistant camera
- 1994
Kill or Be Killed
4.2
- first assistant camera
- 1993
Twisted Fate
3.9
- first assistant camera
- 1993
The Wrong Man
5.9
- first assistant camera
- 1993

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Trivia
I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bi-cultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.