Original title
السيناريست
Released
10/3/2025
Origin country
EG
Genre
Talk
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
14
The Screenwriter podcast with Wael Hamdy focuses primarily on the role of the screenwriter and the importance of screenwriting as a crucial first step in film and television production. In each episode, Wael Hamdy hosts one of his friends, a prominent screenwriter in Egypt, to explore the meaning and significance of the screenwriting profession, discussing its details and challenges, and how a written script is transformed into a film or series. Guests share their professional experiences in screenwriting, recounting the highs and lows of their journeys. Each conversation reveals new secrets from behind the scenes of drama and filmmaking, offering inspiration and expertise to anyone interested in starting or developing their skills in the world of screenwriting.
Do we really have a script crisis? And why has the television series industry become so burdensome? In this episode of the Screenwriters podcast, the esteemed Kamla Abu Zekry joins the conversation, speaking candidly about the writing crisis, the value of the script, the profound relationship between the director and the writer, and why a true director cannot simply be an executor of the text. In this interview, Kamla Abu Zekry discusses her beginnings in directing, her profound influence from masters like Atef El-Tayeb and Fahmy Abdel Hamid, and how her awareness of cinema developed from an early age. She also talks about significant experiences in her career.
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