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Daoud Sarhandi

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Daoud Sarhandi is an award-winning British film editor and sound designer. He is also a director of photography, producer and director/writer. During the 1980s and 90s, he worked in London with influential British documentary filmmakers: most notably the legendary documentary producer Paul Watson. The majority of the films he cut during this period were for the BBC and Channel Four Television. In 2004, in Mexico, he started an ongoing collaboration with the filmmaker Carolina Rivas. Together -- under the banner of their production company Creadores Contemporáneos -- they have produced three low-budget feature-length films: The Colour of Olives (2006), Lessons for Zafirah (2011) and 1 for 1 (2013). All three films have enjoyed considerable international success, winning a total of 15 prizes in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Russia, Belgium, Spain and France. Videovalores (2015 to present) -- Rivas and Sarhandi's short film project dealing with universal values -- has so far produced more than 50 free-form films in Barcelona and Berlin; all of them are co-produced and edited by Sarhandi. He is currently writing ABC of Film & Video Editing; it will be published in 2025.
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Had the great honour to see Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger together at the NFT in London in July 1985, when they presented Martin Scorsese with a script of the recently restored The Red Shoes.
Had the great honour to shake the hand of Saul Bass, at a private movie screening in Berverly Hills, 1983.
Co-wrote, with Jacqueline Stansbury, an original script (working title: Night in London) with and for Terrence Stamp in London, 1984. Although the script was never completed, Stamp later published a novel entitled The Night (1993) with a similar plot and featuring an identically named protagonist, Zeno Studd.
Went to Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol, England - the same school actor Cary Grant attended and was expelled from in 1918, for - legend has it - entering the girls' toilets.
Studied Film and Photography at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) between 1982-85. British cinema history was made at the Polytechnic: in 1896, PCL - at 309 Regent Street - hosted the first screening in Britain of Lumière Brothers' films.

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