Lebanese Filmmaker, editor, cinematographer and sound recordist.

Joëlle ABOU CHABKÉ is a film director, editor, director of photography and sound recordist.
Her upcoming film OURJOUWAN was selected among other feature projects at the 2021 Carthage Film Festival (Chabaka section).

I was born in the spring of 1988 in a small town in Lebanon. In 2012, I graduated from ALBA University with a master degree in cinema directing. Since 2008, I have been working as a director, editor, director of photography and sound recordist for Tv and Cinema.

In 2016, I shot the feature documentary "Counting tiles" directed by Cynthia Choucair that premiered at the Rotterdam film festival in 2018 and that has competed in many other festivals.

My filmography includes short documentaries "Pas de ports pour les petits bateaux" that won the tanit d'argent in the Carthage film festival (JCC) - 2017 and best international short documentary in Cinéma sous les étoiles, Canada - 2019. Also two shorts experimental 8 mm "Did you see the woman?" that was screened during les Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire - Peripherie Montreuil - 2018 and "Aller-retour" that won the second prize at Regard Indépendant festival in Nice - 2019.

In 2018, I moved to Paris and I completed my second master's degree in documentary filmmaking at Paris 7 Diderot (DEMC).

I am currently working on my first feature documentary "Ourjouwan" and two feature documentaries as a sound recordist "We are inside" by Farah Kassem (Lebanon) and "You don't die two times" by Ager Oueslati (Niger/France).

FILMS

ALLER-RETOUR
A film by Joëlle Abou Chabké and Victor Borja
Super 8 - 3 min - 2019
"On the shores of the Mediterranean, two cities so close and yet so distant are alike."
- Second Jury prize at the festival "Regard Indépendant" - Nice 2019

PAS DE PORTS POUR LES PETITS BATEAUX
(No harbor for small boats)
Short documentary - 18 min - 2017
"A night spent on the beach in Lesbos waiting for a hypothetical rubber boat that would manage to land in Europe. But the persistent bad weather seems to hold the people on the other side of the Mediterranean. The day rises when a boat is reported nearby."
- Best international short documentary at the festival "Cinéma sous les étoiles" Montréal, Canada 2019 - Silver Tanit at the "Carthage Film Festival (JCC)", Tunisie 2017 - Official selection at the "International Documentary film festival" in Agadir (Fidadoc) 2018
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AS-TU VU LA FEMME?
(Did you see the woman?)
Super 8 - 2 min 37 - 2016
"Every day, the women of my life meet in my mother's store. They talk about everything and nothing, even about me, with me..."
Collection tourné-monté Regard Indépendant "Pages arrachées" - Super 8 version numérique. In partnership with Met L Film. - Screened at the "rencontres du documentaire Périphérie" Montreuil 2018

LEBANON TAPE 1 Short Fiction - 24 min - 2012
"The found footage of a report of a French journalist, a Lebanese camera operator and sound recordist in Lebanon"
This film was created in 2012 as part of my Master of Arts, major in Cinema Directing from ALBA.
- Official selection at "Cabriolet Film Festival" Beirut 2017 - Public vote award at the "NDU film festival" (Notre Dame du Liban University) 2013 - Official selection at the "Monaco Charity film festival" 2013 - Official selection at the "festival internationale des écoles de cinéma de Poitiers" 2015

ET VOILÀ Short Fiction - 10 min - 2009
"How far would you go to die?"
This film was created in 2009 as part of my bachelor in Audiovisual studies from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA).
It has participated in many festivals and received the third fiction prize at "International Film Festival of the Student" (FIFE) in Casablanca.

Source :
* www.jcctunisie.org/eng/chabakaProjets.php (2021 Carthage FilmFest)
* www.abouchabkejoelle.com/about

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جويل أبو شبكة
(المخرج)
(لبنان)

جويل أبو شبكة هي مخرجة سينمائية ومديرة تصوير وصوت ولدت في لبنان. اشتغلت بين بيروت وباريس إثر حصولها على درجة الماجستير في السينما الوثائقية من جامعة باريس 7 ديدرو. تستكشف من خلال أفلامها حالة الإنسان والتهميش في مجتمعاتنا الحديثة. أرجوان هو أول فيلم وثائقي طويل لها بعد العديد من الأفلام القصيرة الحائزة على العديد من الجوائز ، بما في ذلك التانيت الفضي في أيام قرطاج السينمائية عام 2017

LIENS
www.abouchabkejoelle.com

Source: 2021 Carthage Film Festival
www.jcctunisie.org/ar/chabakaProjets.php