Hafez received the Best Editing Award for his work and DOP Ahmad Al Morsy won Best Cinematography Award for the film.
Egyptian film editor Ahmed Hafez and Director of Photography Ahmad Al Morsy have won awards at the fifth edition of the Arabian Cinema Awards (ACA) for the film Blue Elephant: Dark Whispers (2019), a film production by Synergy Films. Hafez received the Best Editing Award for his work and DOP Ahmad Al Morsy won Best Cinematography Award for the film.
This award marks the fifth from ACA for Hafez after winning four Best Editor awards for Bitter Sugar in 2015, Hepta: The Last Lecture in 2016, The Originals in 2017 and Diamond Dust in 2018. It also marks Hafez’s third award for Blue Elephant: Dark Whispers, as the film previously won him Best Editing award at the Annual Film Society Festival for Egyptian Cinema and The Egyptian Association for Writers & Cinema Critics.
Hafez’s editing credits include more than 30 films and TV series. His most recent projects include Paranormal TV series that marks Netflix’s first-ever original Egyptian series, and Every Week Has a Friday, which recently premiered on MBC’s Shahid. Currently, he is editing Al Aref: Awdat Younis by Ahmad Alaa Aldeeb, starring Ahmed Ezz, Marwan Hamed’s Kira & El Gin, starring Karim Abdelaziz and Ahmed Ezz, as well as Mohamed Diab’s Amira.
It also marks Al Morsy’s second ACA Award after winning it for his film Diamond Dust in 2019. Al Morsy is a member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) and the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC).
Throughout his career, Al Morsy has won 20 international and local awards for his work, including Messages From The Sea (2010), The Party (2013), The Blue Elephant (2014), The Originals (2017), and Blue Elephant: Dark Whispers. Al Morsy has recently wrapped up shooting Ahmed Alaa’s Al Aref starring Ahmed Ezz and is currently working on Marwan Hamed’s upcoming film Kira & El Gen.
The fifth Arabian Cinema Awards (ACA) rewards film releases in 2019. Organised by DearGuest, Arabian Cinema Awards hands awards in 20 categories, based on the votes of ACA Awarding Night’s members, who work in the filmmaking industry.
