Jehane Noujaim

Jehane Noujaim
Born	Washington, D.C.
Occupation	Documentary film director
Years active	1996–present

Jehane Noujaim (Egyptian Arabic: چيهان نچيم‎‎, IPA: [ʒeˈhæːn nʊˈʒeːm]) is an Egyptian American documentary film director best known for her films Control Room,Startup.com, Pangea Day and The Square, the latter of which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award.

Noujaim was born to an Egyptian father and an American mother. She was raised in Kuwait and Cairo and moved to Boston by the age of 10, in 1990.

She attended Milton Academy, matriculated to Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude in visual arts and philosophy. The same year, before her graduation, Noujaim was awarded the Gardiner fellowship under which she directed Mokattam, an Arabic film about a garbage-collecting village near Cairo in Egypt.

She joined the MTV news and documentary division as a segment producer for the documentary series UNfiltered. Noujaim later left her job at MTV to produce and direct Startup.com under the guidance of documentary filmmaker D.A Pennebaker in association with Pennebaker Hegedus Films. The feature length, highly acclaimed documentary has won numerous distinguished awards including the DGA and IDA Awards for best documentary. She won the DGA Award again for The Square in 2014.

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