CAli*MA Art Gallery • Nesreen Abd El Halim (Egypt)
Nesreen Abd El Halim is an animated film director and visual artist born in Cairo in 1985. She earned a bachelor's and pre-master's degree from the High Institute of Cinema and directed several animation films. She creates paintings using various materials including oil colours, acrylic and watercolours.
Nesreen Abd El Halim participated in many film festivals and art exhibitions and won a vast number of awards. She wasn't only invited to many TV programs to talk about her works but also works as an anchor in the children program of the Egyptian TV Channel 2. Besides that, she regularly conducts workshops for children at many different places and teaches them how to draw as well as how to make an animated movie.
Artist Nesreen Abd El Halim – Artworks
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Work Experience:
- Since June 2015: Teacher for drawing and making animated movies for children in the Russian Cultural Center, Language Department, Cairo
- Since February 2015: Teacher for drawing and making animated movies for children at the El Sawy Culture Wheel, Cairo
- 1/7/2008 – 1/7/2013: Animation director at the Innovation Studio Company
Education:
- 2011: Pre-master's degree from the High Institute of Cinema at the Animation Films Directing Section of the Academy of Arts in Cairo
- 2009: Bachelor degree from the High Institute of Cinema at the Animation Films Directing Section of the Academy of Arts in Cairo
Movies & Works:
- 2020
· Joy - Animated short movie with children
· Some Faces - Animated short movie with children
· Rain Color - Animated short movie with children - 2019
· 7kayat Pop Up - Animated short movie with children
· Jungle Animals - Animated short movie with children
· Traffic Signal - Animated short movie with children - 2018
· Flower - Animated short movie with children
· Crazy Football - Animated short movie with children
· Flowers and Honey - Animated short movie with children
· Nona We Sabona - Animated short movie with children - 2017
· Fun with Kids - life and animation short movie with children
· Aliens - Animated short movie with children
· Back to Home - Animated short movie with children
· Fly - Animated short movie with children
· My Face - Animated short movie with children - 2016: Cars - Animated short movie with children
- 2014: Colors - Animated short movie with children
- 2013: Crazy Fish - Animated short movie with children
- 2012: El Farah - Animated short movie
- 2011: Moon Dance - life and animation short movie (received a certificate of appreciation in 2014)
- 2009: Scream - Animated short movie (received an award in 2010)
- 2008: Dream - life and animated short movie
Selected Group Exhibitions & Festivals:
- 2021: Couples - Group Exhibition, Nūn Art Gallery, Luxor, 2021
- 2020: Nūn Art Gallery Luxor, Summer Collection 2020
- 2020: Egypt International Art Salon, January 26, Ostraka Arts, Hurghada
- 2019: Conducting an animation workshop with children from the village of Karam El Deeb (Aswan) and producing a cartoon film with them, October 26, with the support of the German Robert Bosch Foundation & the Goethe Institute Cairo
- 2018
· 22th National Festival of Egyptian Cinema, October 29, Cairo Opera House
· Organising the exhibition Young Creators for children and developing their abilities in drawing and animation by doing art workshops for them, El Sawy Culture Wheel, September 21, Cairo - 2017
· 19th World Festival of Youth and Students, 14-22 October, Sochi, Russia
· Organising the exhibition Young Creators for children and developing their abilities in drawing and animation by doing art workshops for them, El Sawy Culture Wheel, September 11, Cairo - 2016
· 20th National Festival of Egyptian Cinema, October 12, Cairo Opera House
· Organising the exhibition Young Creators for children and developing their abilities in drawing and animation by doing art workshops for them, El Sawy Culture Wheel, October 2, Cairo - 2015
· 19th National Festival of Egyptian Cinema, October 16, Cairo Opera House
· First Terracena Youth Exhibition, April 18, Alexandria
· First Jazirah Al-Ward Film Festival, June 9, Mansoura
· 3rd International Upper Egypt Salon, Luxor
· Organising the exhibition Young Creators for children and developing their
abilities in drawing and animation by doing art workshops for them, El Sawy Culture Wheel, September 21, Cairo - 2014
· 3rd Luxor African Film Festival, March 16, Luxor
· The Arab Forum for Animation, Talaat Harb Cultural Center, 13 February, Cairo
· 18th National Festival of Egyptian Cinema, Cairo Opera House, December 5
· 6th Nahr El Bahr Competition for Fine Arts at el Sawy Culture Wheel, December 21, Cairo
· Exhibition of Farha Masreya in the Russian Cultural Center in cooperation with the Egyptian Association of Graduates of Russian and Soviet Universities, July 17, Cairo - 2013
· 17th National Festival of Egyptian Cinema, November 18, Cairo Opera House
· Knights Festival at the Faculty of Fine Arts, 7 April, Cairo
· 1st Animation Film Festival for Youth of the Creativity Center of the Cairo Opera House, 6 April - 2012
· Moscars Al-Hurria International Film Festival, 10 April, Heliopolis, Cairo
· 7th Forum of Young Artists exhibition The First Time, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 12 July, Alexandria - 2011
· 22th Youth Salon, Arts Palace, Cairo Opera House - 2010
· 16th National Festival of Egyptian Cinema, April 22, Cairo Opera House
· Marrakech International Film Festival, March 24, Morocco
· Cairo International Film Festival for Children, 4 March, Cairo
· Knights Festival at the Faculty of Fine Arts, 10 April, Cairo
· Nights Festival Fayoum, 11 February, Fayoum
· Third Egyptian Forum for Animated Films at Talaat Harb Cultural Center in collaboration with the Egyptian Society of Animation, 4 February, Cairo
· Alexandria International Film Festival, August, Alexandria - 2009
· 15th National Festival of Egyptian Cinema, April 22, Cairo Opera House
· Sakia Second Festival of Animated Films, 20 December, Cairo
Awards, Grants & Certificates:
- 2020
· Certificate of appreciation for art paintings from the Egypt International Art Salon at Hurghada - 2019
· Certificate of appreciation from the German Robert Bosch Foundation and the Goethe Institute Cairo to create an animation workshop with children from Aswan and to produce a cartoon film with them - 2018
· Full-time grant submitted by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture for the Children’s Project, which is teaching children how to make an animated film and producing with them a short film
· Certificate of appreciation for organising the exhibition Young Creators for children and developing their abilities in drawing and animation by doing art workshops for them, El Sawy Culture Wheel, September 21, Cairo - 2017
· Certificate of appreciation from the Russian Embassy in Egypt for participation in the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students, 14-22 October, Sochi, Russia
· Full-time grant submitted by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture for the Children’s Project, which is teaching children how to make an animated film producing with them a short film, July, Cairo
· Certificate of appreciation for organising the exhibition Young Creators for children and developing their abilities in drawing and animation by doing art workshops for them, El Sawy Culture Wheel, September 11, Cairo - 2016
· Full-time grant submitted by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture for the Children’s Project, which is teaching children how to make an animated film producing with them a short film, July, Cairo
· Certificate of appreciation for organising the exhibition Young Creators for
children and developing their abilities in drawing and animation by doing art workshops for them, El Sawy Culture Wheel, October 2, Cairo - 2015
· Full-time grant submitted by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture for the Children’s Project, which is teaching children how to make an animated film producing with them a short film, July, Cairo
· Certificate of appreciation for organising the exhibition Young Creators for children and developing their abilities in drawing and animation by doing art workshops for them, El Sawy Culture Wheel, September 21, Cairo
· YouTube Creator Day Award, Greek Campus of the American University in Cairo, 26 March
· Certificate of participation of the First Terracena Youth Exhibition, April 18, Alexandria - 2014
· Certificate of appreciation from Mansoura Second Short Film Festival cycle Saad Eddin Wahba for the film Moon Dance, January 22, Mansoura
· Certificate of appreciation from the exhibition Farha Masreyain of the Russian Cultural Center in cooperation with the Egyptian Association of Graduates of Russian and Soviet Universities, July 17, Cairo - 2010
· Best Educational Institutions Film Award for the film Scream, Third Arab Forum for Animated Egyptian Films at Talaat Harb Cultural Center in collaboration with the Egyptian Society of Animation, 4 February
· Certificate of appreciation for the film Scream from the Marrakech International Film Festival, March 24, Morocco - 2009:
· Certificate of appreciation from the South Valley University for the participation in the events of the 12th Technical Forum of Arab Universities, March
· Award for the Best Film at the Third Cairo International Animation Forum at the Talaat Harb Cultural Center - 2008: Certificate of appreciation from the South Valley University for the participation in the events of the 11th Technical Forum of Arab Universities, March
- 2007: Certificate of appreciation from the South Valley University for the participation in the events of the 10th Technical Forum of Arab Universities, March
- 2006: Certificate of appreciation from the South Valley University for the participation in the events of the 9th Technical Forum of Arab Universities, March
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