Mahmoud Assi is an Egyptian director, screenwriter, Head of Production and visual-media professional. He graduated in Film/Cinema/Video Studies from Cairo's Higher Institute of Cinema, where he studied from 2017 to 2021. He also studied Mass Communication and Media Studies at October 6 University.

His professional career includes work as a director and Head of Production at Seven Brands, as a filmmaker for New Egypt Gold, and as a media specialist at The GrEEK Campus. His work is rooted in contemporary Egyptian stories and in the social realities that tourist and humanitarian representations can sometimes oversimplify.

Khufu is his first short film as a director. Developed over almost one year, including through the Sunbird Stories development lab, the film won the inaugural Eish competition, an initiative of the United Nations World Food Programme, Zest and El Gouna Film Festival. It was subsequently selected for the International Competition of Pardi di Domani at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, where it received the Pardino d'Argento - Arts3 Foundation Award. Mahmoud Assi is also developing the feature-film project The Khamsin Winds (Riyah Al-Khamaseen).