The festival will also host an exhibition of Seif's work which will include some of his designs and sketches, and video clips from his films.
The El Gouna Film Festival has announced that it will honour production designer Onsi Abou Seif with the Career Achievement Award during its fourth edition scheduled to kick off on October 23.
The festival will also host an exhibition of Seif’s work which will include some of his designs and sketches, video clips from his films, movie posters, and awards he has received over the course of his career.
Seif has designed special scenes for the Hollywood movie Malcolm X (1992), and frequently collaborated with his friend and Egyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayed.
During the course of his career, Seif is known for designing hyper-realistic set décor, most significantly for the television series Critical Moments (2007), and the film The Traveller (2009).
His works also include Love in Jail (1983), Kit Kat (1991), Land of Dreams (1993), The Other (1999), Land of Fear (2000), The Days of Sadat (2001), A Citizen, a Detective, and a Thief (2001), Halim (2006), and Messages from the Sea (2010).
