Deema Azar
- Casting Director
- Casting Department
- Producer
Deema Azar is a Jordanian film producer and script consultant. She is also co-founder and managing partner at the Amman-based production company TaleBox.
Azar produced Darin J. Sallam's award-winning debut feature film FARHA (2021). The film premiered at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival, was selected as Jordan's official entry to the 95th Academy Awards (Oscars) 2023 and received the Best Youth Film award at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (the Asian Oscars), marking a historic first win for Jordan at APSA. She also produced the short film THE PARROT (2016), recipient of the 2015 Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
Previous positions occupied by Azar include Regional Training Manager at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan (2012 - 2016) and Head of Industry at the Amman Intl. Film Festival (2020).
A member of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and a Torino Film Lab Story Editing program alumna, Azar also works as a script consultant, conducting script development labs and advising for film entities regionally and internationally in addition to privately consulting on film projects.
Azar produced Darin J. Sallam's award-winning debut feature film FARHA (2021). The film premiered at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival, was selected as Jordan's official entry to the 95th Academy Awards (Oscars) 2023 and received the Best Youth Film award at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (the Asian Oscars), marking a historic first win for Jordan at APSA. She also produced the short film THE PARROT (2016), recipient of the 2015 Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
Previous positions occupied by Azar include Regional Training Manager at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan (2012 - 2016) and Head of Industry at the Amman Intl. Film Festival (2020).
A member of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and a Torino Film Lab Story Editing program alumna, Azar also works as a script consultant, conducting script development labs and advising for film entities regionally and internationally in addition to privately consulting on film projects.
