Maha Elwazir
- Writer
Maha El-Wazir is an Egyptian Screenwriter, Script Doctor, Creative Producer, and Drama Professor with a marketing background. She recently founded her own creative lab for creating, and developing shorts and TV Series as well as nurturing new writing talents in Egypt and the Arab World.
El-Wazir is the Head Writer for the Ramadan Original Hit Newton's Cradle (2021) and the Screenwriter of the Netflix Original Finding Ola (2022). She was also the script editor/ staff writer in the writing room for the Ramadan hit Later Tonight (2017). She was also a staff writer in the writing room of Critical Moments (2012) the Arabic Adaptation of the American show "ER". Additionally, she co-wrote the short Sugar-Free which was shortlisted by Robert Bosch Stiftung during Berlin Film Festival (2016). She wrote her first feature film "Veil and Tulle", which was on Birthmark Films' 2019 slate.
Elwazir participated in multiple screenwriting workshops locally and internationally, she attended the Euromed Audiovisual program, "Socrates Training Initiative", script editors and screenwriters for fiction feature films and the "Middle East Media Initiative - MEMI" 2nd Year at the Faculty of Cinematic Arts, University of South California.
Furthermore, Elwazir occupied the Head of Development position at Birthmark Films between 2017 and 2019 and currently is a Film Studies professor at Cairo University.
Elwazir holds a Ph.D. degree (2018) in Film and Women Studies from Cairo University, A Master's degree (2012) in international communication and public opinion, and Bachelor's degree (2007) in Mass Communication from the same university.
El-Wazir is the Head Writer for the Ramadan Original Hit Newton's Cradle (2021) and the Screenwriter of the Netflix Original Finding Ola (2022). She was also the script editor/ staff writer in the writing room for the Ramadan hit Later Tonight (2017). She was also a staff writer in the writing room of Critical Moments (2012) the Arabic Adaptation of the American show "ER". Additionally, she co-wrote the short Sugar-Free which was shortlisted by Robert Bosch Stiftung during Berlin Film Festival (2016). She wrote her first feature film "Veil and Tulle", which was on Birthmark Films' 2019 slate.
Elwazir participated in multiple screenwriting workshops locally and internationally, she attended the Euromed Audiovisual program, "Socrates Training Initiative", script editors and screenwriters for fiction feature films and the "Middle East Media Initiative - MEMI" 2nd Year at the Faculty of Cinematic Arts, University of South California.
Furthermore, Elwazir occupied the Head of Development position at Birthmark Films between 2017 and 2019 and currently is a Film Studies professor at Cairo University.
Elwazir holds a Ph.D. degree (2018) in Film and Women Studies from Cairo University, A Master's degree (2012) in international communication and public opinion, and Bachelor's degree (2007) in Mass Communication from the same university.
