At only 22, young Egyptian Hayat Aljowaily, a published filmmaker with an international network is on a mission to change the world through the arts. Aljowaily’s love for filmmaking professionally only blossomed in late high school, but she has always been a fan of consuming the medium. “Growing up, I was always completely fascinated by movies to an obsessive point. I just loved the magic of going into the movie theater and escaping into a parallel world,” Aljowaily told Egyptian Streets. Some of her favorite films as a child were Romantic Comedies and musicals including Grease and High School Musical. “Honestly, when I was younger, I had trouble coming out of it, like I watched Peter Pan once and literally was sad for hours because I couldn’t fly, or I watched a Winnie the Pooh movie where Tigger lost his family, and I was crying non stop after the film ended because he couldn’t find his family. I just was enticed by these parallel universes,” Aljowaily added. At the end of high school, she started practicing a lot of social activism, where she realized the power that the arts, film…
Meet Hayat Aljowaily: Young Egyptian Filmmaker with a Passion for Social Justice
October 4, 2020
