Ismail Khalfouni: Cinematographer, director and producer.

Helloo!! Turning a true story into a series

its based on my family’s story (my mom is the main character)

and i would love some advice on this!

it talks about mental abuse, control, forced marriage, trauma, betrayal, death of beloved ones and overall family problems and mental health.

i’m not a professional writer but i believe that this story...

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Punalur Chandrasekharan

Hi Ismail, I am in Kerala, India.

Ismail Khalfouni

Hi, nice to meet you

Isreal Bladimir Munoz

Hi, I’m a psychiatrist and happy to offer any help with script, portrayals, or production

Ismail Khalfouni

Hello Stage 32 Community,

I’m excited to share that we’ve completed our new short film, The Gatekeeper, and we’ve just launched a crowdfunding campaign to support festival submissions and help get the film seen by a wider audience.

Made with the talented team from the Edinburgh Cine and Video Society...

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Geoff Hall

Hello Ismail, I was interested as a lover of Rumi’s poetry, to read that you are influenced by Sufi philosophy. what attracts you to it?

Ismail Khalfouni

Hello, and thank you for your message. I’d say it wasn’t so much that I was drawn to Sufi philosophy, but rather that it found its way to me. I was lucky growing up in a family that embraced Sufi prac...

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Geoff Hall

That's wonderful. What a lovely upbringing: poetry, spiritual reflection and remembrance. Other than Rumi, what other Sufi poets would you recommend?

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Ismail. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

This is a network for you, built by you. Lik...

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Amanda Toney

Hello Ismail -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you w...

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Ismail's network

Slava Babenkov
Roberto RT
Dave Aquino
Vincent Weberink
Lisa Geis
Mike Hall
Federico Alerta
Robert Sacchi
Fred Plimley
Federico Aletta
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