Sally El Hosaini

Sally El Hosaini (Arabic: سالي الحسيني) is a Welsh-Egyptian film director and screenwriter.

Her debut feature film, My Brother the Devil won international awards, including at the 2013 Evening Standard Film Awards,2012 Sundance Film Festival, 2012 Berlin International Film Festival and 2012 BFI London Film Festival Awards, amongst others. It stars Fady Elsayed, BIFA Award winning James Floyd and César Award nominated actor Saïd Taghmaoui. It was filmed on location in Hackney, London.

El Hosaini was born in Swansea, Wales, of Egyptian Welsh parentage, and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She had her first story published when she was seven years old.

El Hosaini attended Atlantic College, one of the United World Colleges. She went on to read Arabic with Middle Eastern Studies at Durham University. Before making films she taught English Literature at a girls' school in Sana'a, Yemen and worked for Amnesty International. She is a long-time resident of Hackney, London.

El Hosaini was a trainee to the late renegade theatre director, John Sichel. She began her career working on Middle East documentaries and then moved to independent feature films, where she was a production coordinator for many years. She has stated that her work in British television documentaries felt "formulaic", and that she found she could be more truthful in fiction.

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