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Ateyyat El Abnoudy
Ateyyat El Abnoudy (October 26, 1939) also known as Ateyyat Awad Mahmoud Khali. A well-known Egyptian filmmaker, film director and book writer. Her main focus is in documentaries.

Early Life and Education
Ateyyat El Abnoudy; born in a small village, the youngest of four girls, and a sibling to her three other brothers, began her studies within the legal department at the University of Cairo. She gives thanks to one of the people who helped her in her journey Nasser, his coming into power allowed for the filmmaker to attend post-secondary and take further steps to beginning her career.

While deciding on where she fits in the film world, Ateyyat worked in many different roles in the theater, such as stage manager and assistant. When she found her passion in film-making she decided to continue her education. In 1972 she attended Cairo’s Higher Film Institute to finish her film studies. In the two years she spent there, she created her first two films called Horse of Mud, which she received awards for. At the time that film was created to filmmaker was still new to the industry.

While Abnoudy was nearing her graduation date she was also in the process of creating her first documentary Horse of Mud. Abnoudy stated that she wanted to have what she referred to as a style of poetic realism. The ways in which she captured the images of her actresses was a way she states would show that the best. According to Van de Peer, the Horse of Mud wasn’t only Abnoudy’s first documentary, but it was also Egypt’s first documentary by a woman.

Abnoudy thrives on creating original work. Work that circulates are the lives that people in third world countries are living in as Van de peer states in his piece. She likes to focus on the things in our everyday lives that influence us. The impacts that society has on our lives. In terms of a poetic approach, a few of her movies are short films. Like the saying: a little says a lot, that is the way in which Abnoudy’s films speak to her viewers. She wants her audience to understand the message she is using her films to relay. Every time her films are watched she wants the viewer to learn her message and relate to the film in a new way each time.

At the time that Abnoudy was in the process of sculpting her craft, according to Van de Peer in his articles, Egypt was undermining the freedom of expression, especially of women. Van de Peer states that the feminist documentary writer expresses her poetic realism, along with that Abnoudy uses her films Permissible Dreams (1982) and Responsible Women (1994) to make her viewers feel empathy and appropriation.

Awards
Abnoudy was a female documentary writer who based her films on a connection, she wanted her audience to bond with the actors according to Van de Peer the Films Horse of Mud and Sad Song of Touha and The Sandwich were the winners of prizes from the foreign film festivals.

Filmography
· Hosan al-tin/ Horse of Mud (1971)

· Ughniyat Touha al – hazina/ sad song of Touha/ La triste chanson de Touha (1972)

· Jumble Sale (1973)

· Two Festivals in Grenoble (1974)

· Al-Sandawich (1975)

· London Views (1976)

· Al-Taqaddum ila al-‘umq (1979)

· Bihar al-‘atash/ Seas of Thirst (1981)

· Al-Ahlam al- mumkina/ Permissible Dreams (1983)

· Rolla Tree (1985)

· Iqa’al-haya/ Rhythm of Life (1988)

· Year of Maya (1989)

· Interview in Room (1990)

· Illi ba’wa-lli ishtra/ sellers and buyers (1992)

·  Diary in Exile (1993)

· Nisa’ mas’ulat/ Responsible women (1994)

· Rawya (1995)

· Ayyam al-dimuqratiya/ Days of Democracy (1996)

· Egyptian Heronies (1996)

· Al-Qahira 1000 (2000)

· Qitar al-Nuba/ The Nubia Train (2002)

· Toshka (Toshka) (2004)

· Sone’a fi Misr (made in Egypt) (2006)

· Ethiopia Be’uyun Masriyya (2009)