Ahmed Hafez

Biography

With an extensive career spanning more than 20 years full of local and international works in the film industry, Egyptian film editor Ahmed Hafez has presented the final cuts of over 20 films and edited numerous TV commercials and music videos. Hafez started his editing career with many TV commercials and music videos. He won 12 local and international awards for his work in six films.

Hafez's first editing work was an Axe TV commercial directed by Hadi Elbagoury in 1998. After editing many TV commercials and music videos, Hafez edited his first film 45 Days (2007), starring Ahmad Al Fishawy and directed by Ahmed Yousri, followed by Al Rahina (The Hostage) (2006) by director Sandra Nashaat, who he continued to work within the films Masgoon Transit (Prisoner on Transit) (2008) and Al Maslaha (The Deal) (2012). 

His editing credits also include the films El Shabah (The Ghost) (2007), Badal Faqed (Replacement) (2009), Al Hafla (The Party) (2013), Sukkar Mor (Bitter Sugar) (2015) by director Hani Khalifa, for which he won the Best Editing award at the Arabian Cinema Awards (ACA), Gunshot (2018) by director Karim El Shenawy, and Al Daif (The Guest) by director Hadi Elbagoury and writer Ibrahim Eissa. Hafez is currently editing director Ahmad Alaa Aldeeb's film Al Aref: Awdat Younis, starring Ahmed Ezz. 

Hafez also edited some of the most remarkable Egyptian TV series. He worked with director Mohamed Shaker Khodeir and screenwriter Tamer Habib in three TV series; Tareeqy (My Path) (2015), Grand Hotel (2016), and La Tottfe' Al Shams (2017). He also worked with director Amr Salama in his TV series Tayea (2018).