American director, screenwriter and producer of Egyptian origin.

Lotfy NATHAN is a film director, screenwriter and producer.

He is known for "12 O'Clock Boys" (2012, Director), "Harka" (2022, Director / Screenwriter).

Lotfy Nathan is a filmmaker who graduated in 2009 from Maryland Institute College of Art. It was during his studies at MICA that he began to pursue film. Lotfy Nathan's first feature film, the documentary 12 O'Clock Boys, for which he was awarded the HBO Prize ‘Emerging Artists', has been selected in more than 50 international festivals, including SXSW and Sundance LA.
His first fiction feature film, "Harka" (2022), was selected for the 75th Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section, and was awarded the Best Work-in-Progress prize, at the 2021 Red Sea Film Festival (Saudi Arabia).

Source :
www.tarantula.be/film/harka/?lang=en
www.tarantula.lu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/harka-dp-webcannes.pdf
updated by Thierno DIA, on 26 May 2022