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Mahmoud Mahmoud, born in Cairo (January 6, 1986) is an Egyptian

director, producer, writer and actor.

Personal life
He was born in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated from the Faculty of Management Information Systems at Cairo University, then free studies in cinema. He began his artistic career on the school stage, then the university theater, and from there to the work of cinema. His beginning was in the year 2000.

Artistic life
His beginnings were in the school theater and then the university theater with the university team and theatrical director Mohamed Khayyam. He joined several theater groups, including the Freedom Troupe with director Mohamed Abdel Hamid and the late artist Fouad Al-Mohandes. He sought to study cinematography through free studies in the sciences of acting, film directing and psychodrama with several directors from Egypt and outside Egypt, was chosen to be the director of the Arab League open several works at the University of Theater and Faisal Nada , and was the first of his plays courtesy global director Youssef Chahine , no luck from the call Youssef Chahine did not abandon him at that time director of photography Dr. Mohamed Abdel Mohsen Where he was part of the Egyptian International Films team and the works of Youssef ChahineAnd he helped him a lot at that time in terms of training and supervising the works in his early days, and his relationship with television began through director Yasser Zayed and director Hossam Abdel Rahman in “ Forgive Me Ya Zaman” (series) , then works continued with director Khaled Al-Hajar, director Hatem Farid and Mohamed El-Basawy, and in that Time joined the Artistic Competition of Producer Esaad Younes of the Arab Company and was among the five winners by joining a movie, and then discovered that he wanted to reach several sciences and discover himself more, so he studied plastic art and psychology and repeated the sciences of directing and acting for the screen with director Ahmed Maher.

Moves to the Emirates
Then decided to travel outside of Egypt and moved to the United Arab Emirates, where he participated in several works related to fashion and photography , school training courses related to science color art architecture , film, photo and art criticism and then decided to first work film his start in film directing and his faith in cinema author and influenced by several Directors such as Tarkovsky, director Theo Angelopoulos, Youssef Chahine and Shady Abdel Salam decided to write and direct his films, and the result was the appearance of the experimental film Abdel-Wadood and the film's entry into several international film festivals was a very important step in his artistic life, then the short feature film A Brown Woman On The Way     and the movie Homeland, Love and Cinema  those works were filmed in Dubai.

Among his most famous works is the film Magda is the only Arab film that has won many awards in several countries such as America, Austria, Japan, France, India, Italy and other countries , and Magda film  produced by Samir Nile, written and directed by Mahmoud Mahmoud, Director of Photography Tamer Radwan, starring a large group of representatives from various Arab world , including Hussein Palm, and Joseph slaves, and Abanob Izzat, Ahmad Mohammadi, Hossam El Bastawisi and Berna, is currently working on a study of film production, it is He always realizes the importance of pursuing modern cinematic sciences, getting acquainted with the sciences and components of the cinematic image in full, and preparing his long fiction works that are still in progress, such as Mosha and Aris, and several other artistic projects.

Awards and honors
His film Magda won 10 international awards out of 14 entries for short films, including the award for best director in several countries, including Sweden, Greece, France and India.

His film HOME won Best Editing and Best Soundtrack Award.