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Egyptian short Wintry Spring wins 23rd prize with best script at African Film Festival in Dallas
Ahram Online Published in Ahram Online on 19 - 07 - 2017

The Egyptian short film Wintry Spring (Rabie Shetwy) won the award for best script at The African Film Festival (TAFF) held in Dallas, Texas earlier this month.
Wintry Spring is written by Tamer Abdelhamid with director Mohamed Kamel.
Starring Eman Mostafa and Ahmed Kamal, the 16-minute film depicts a relationship between a father and his daughter Nour.
In an apparently otherwise regular relationship and life, typical youth problems emerge with Nour and create a rift between the two.
The film was also nominated at TAFF for the Best Narrative Short, Best Actress and Best Actor awards.
Wintry Spring premiered in France at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2015.

The TAFF award is the 23rd prize garnered by the film in 130 international film festivals' appearance.
Some of its major awards include the best short and best actor awards at the 2016 Italian festival Fotogramma d'Oro, and Best Short Film Award at the 2016 Sose International Film Festival in Armenia.
Eman Moustafa won the Best Actress awards at the XVIII VideoLab Film Festival 2016 and Cervignano Film Festival 2016 (Italy) and the film won Grand Prize for Best Short at the Festival International du Film Pan Africain de Cannes 2016 (France), the Golden Frame Award at Fotogramma d'Oro Film Festival 2016 (Italy), the Best Short Fiction Award at the Tripoli Film Festival 2015 (Lebanon), and the Special Jury Prize at Nouakchott International film festival 2015, among others.
Scriptwriter Tamer Abdelhamid is one of the founding members of the Syndicate of Independent Filmmakers.
His screenwriting repertoire includes Kilo 56, which was awarded from the Organistaion Internationale de la Francophonie at the Dubai Film Connection (DFC) in 2012, and the 2017 television series El-Sabaa Sanayea leading a team of writers,
Abdel Hamid also published a novel titled Residency License for Muslims in 2012, and has directed two short films, Mid-life Crisis and Not Strange.
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