Georges Schoucair

Georges Schoucair is a prominent Lebanese film producer. Considered as one of the most promising film producers in the Middle-East cinema, Schoucair has produced several critically acclaimed and award-winning independent movies. He has actively contributed to the development of cinema in Lebanon as well as African cinema.

He is the founder and CEO of his own production house, 'Abbout Productions' founded in 2003. Apart from that, he is also the founder of Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival in Beirut, regarded as the first genre movie film fest in the Arab world.

Career As a producer, he worked with award-winning directors including: Kaouther Ben Hania, Vatche Boulghourjian, Jean Luc Godard, Alain Gomis, Joana Hadjithomas, Annemarie Jacir, Khalil Joreige, Mohammad Malas, Lucrecia Martel, Shirin Neshat, Asli Ozge, Rafi Pitts, Bill Plympton, Ghassan Salhab, Elia Suleiman and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. where he worked as the producer in many acclaimed films Félicité (2017), Wajib (2017), Rafiki (2018), Beauty & The Dogs (2018), It Must Be Heaven (2019) and A Son (2019).

Filmography Year Film Role Genre Ref. 2005 A Perfect Day Co-producer Film 2006 The Last Man Co-producer TV movie 2008 I Want to See Producer Film 2008 Melodrama Habibi Director Film 2009 1958 Producer Film 2010 Stray Bullet Producer Film 2010 Yanoosak Co-producer Film 2010 The Mountain Producer Film 2011 Sector Zero Producer Film 2011 Gate #5 Producer Film 2012 Impossible Exchange Producer Short film 2012 The Lebanese Rocket Society Producer Documentary 2013 Ladder to Damascus Producer Film 2013 Stable Unstable Producer Film 2014 The Valley Producer Film 2015 Trêve Producer Documentary 2015 Dégradé Co-producer Film 2015 Cemetery of Splendor Associate producer Film 2016 Apelo Producer Film 2016 All of a Sudden Co-producer Film 2016 Letters from War Co-producer Film 2016 Soy Nero Co-producer Film 2016 Tramontane Producer Film 2016 Revengeance Co-producer Film 2017 Mr. Stein Goes Online Co-producer Film 2017 Félicité Co-producer Film 2017 Nobody's Watching Co-producer Film 2017 Beauty and the Dogs Co-producer Film 2017 White Noise Producer Film 2017 Salamat from Germany Producer Film 2017 Hotel Al Naim Producer Film 2017 El Gran Libano Producer Film 2017 Wajib Co-producer Film 2017 Zama Co-producer Film 2017 Looking for Oum Kulthum Co-producer Film 2017 Un certain Nasser Producer Documentary 2017 One of These Days Producer Film 2018 Rafiki Co-producer Film 2018 The Image Book Associate producer Film 2018 Empire Hotel Co-producer Film 2019 Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness Co-producer Film 2019 Initials SG Producer Film 2019 The Unknown Saint Associate producer Film 2019 It Must Be Heaven Co-producer Film 2019 A Son Director Film 2019 All This Victory Producer Film 2019 1982 Producer Film 2021 Costa Brava, Lebanon Producer Film TBD The Notebooks Producer Film