Mohammed Alhamoud
DirectingBiography
In 2008, Mohammed Alhamoud co-founded the Riyadh-based Talashi Film Collective, which was dedicated to making short films to screen in film festivals of neighboring countries a decade before cinemas opened in Saudi Arabia. Talashi produced numerous shorts, including Sunrise/Sunset (2009), which won both the Muhr Arab Special Mention and the FIPRESCI Prize awards at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2009. Mohammed obtained an MFA in film directing from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2013. He wrote, directed, and produced a few shorts including Shadow (2009), Anarosa Sp...
