Nabil Maleh (1936–2016) was a film director, screenwriter, producer, painter, and poet. He is considered the father of modern Syrian cinema and one of the leading masters of Arab cinema. He earned his master's degree from the film academy FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic, and published more than 1000 articles, short stories, essays, and poems. He was the writer and director of 120 short, experimental and documentary works and 12 feature length films including The extras and The leopard, which was voted one of the top 50 Asian films of all time at Pusan IFF, in addition to being named as one of The immortal Masterpieces of Asian cinema at the 2005 Pusan International Film Festival. He has been honored with more than 60 awards at international film festivals, including several lifetime achievement awards. Several of his films are in the curricula of international film schools, and he has taught film direction, acting, writing, and aesthetics at many universities, centers, and associations, including Austin University in Texas and the University of California in Los Angeles. While at MacDowell, he worked on his fiction film screenplay The 7th. tattoo about the events which culminated into the revolution in Syria, and executing sketches for his next art exhibition.
Nabil Maleh
Studios
Garland
Nabil Maleh worked in the Garland studio.
Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…