Writer and director Adam Abd ElGhaffar's short film Fork and Knife has been selected to compete within the Short Films Competition at the second edition of El Gouna Film Festival that will be held from 20 to 28 September.
Headlined by stars Menna Shalaby, Eyad Nassar and Asser Yassin, Fork and Knife follows a romantic date that seems very normal until the dates are exposed to their past and their future changes.
Alongside Menna Shalaby, Eyad Nassar and Asser Yassin, the short film stars Rosaline Elbay, Nour Aboulela and Nourchène Bahri. Fork and Knife is a co-production between Creative Arab Talent, The Producers, Red Star Films, Lagoonie Film Production and Creative Media Ventures, in collaboration with BEE Media Productions, Lizard, Dana Ismail and Adam Abd ElGhaffar.
Lagoonie Film Production is an Egyptian Film production company established by Producer Shahinaz Elakkad in 2017. The company aims to develop the film and TV industry in Egypt and the Arab world through making international films and TV series that address new non-mainstream topics to put the Arab film and TV industry on the international map.
Lagoonie Film Production co-produced Ana Shahira.. Ana El Kha'en TV series by writer Noor Abdulmajeed and season two of Seventh Neighbor TV series, in addition to producing the short film Fork and Knife. The company will reveal details on upcoming projects soon.
Lagoonie Film Production has announcedpresenting a monetary award of 5000 Euros to one of the Arab film projects in the post-production stage participating in the Final Cut in Venice workshop held on the margins of the Venice International Film Festival (1-3 September).