{"id":23939,"date":"2020-06-18T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/?p=23939"},"modified":"2020-07-26T06:18:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T03:18:14","slug":"wlcuy-community-talks-sam-lahoud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/23939\/","title":{"rendered":"WLCU Youth Community Talks with Sam Lahoud!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this edition of the\u00a0WLCU Youth #Community Talks we were joined by\u00a0<strong>Sam Lahoud<\/strong>, founding chair of the Beirut Film Society, to discuss Lebanese filmmaking and the industry!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23940\" src=\"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-01-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-01-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-01-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-01-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-01-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-01-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-01.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-23941\" src=\"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-02-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-02-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-02-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-02-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-02-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-02-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-02.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>05 Sam Lahoud (Lebanon) &#8211; &#8220;Lebanese Cimena: Voices of the Youth &amp; Responsible Filmmaking&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">June 20th, 2020<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Facebook <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">|<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kTV71wzhfgg\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The contemporary Lebanese cinema is a cinema by the youth and for the youth, as per the age range of the filmmakers and the themes addressed in most of the Lebanese films, which reflect a sense of commitment that deserves the title of &#8220;Responsible Filmmaking&#8221;. Sharing years of experience and knowledge, Sam Lahoud will cover the impact of relevant topics and storylines where the youth&#8217;s creativity is currently taking a lead as well as the callenges within the Lebanese cinema in terms of production, stories, topics and more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sam Lahoud is a scriptwriter, a director, a producer, a script consultant, and a lecturer in Film, Theater, and Media. He started his career in Film and Theater in 1994, and since then he has written, directed and produced Theater Plays, Films and Documentaries, which received many national and international recognitions and awards; his first feature film \u201cWaynon\u201d (Void) was the Lebanese official submission for the Academy Awards 2015 (Oscars) for Best Foreign Language Film.<br \/>\nSam is active in cross cultural productions, and is permanently working on different film projects.\u00a0He is the Founding Chair of Beirut Film Society and Producer at Berytus Production and AV Nation. He is the Founding Director of Beirut International Women Film Festival, Beirut Shorts, NDU International Film Festival, Beirut International Children and Family Film Festival, the Lebanese Film Festival in Canada, the Golden Grenade Armenian Film Festival in Beirut, and many other film events.<\/p>\n<p>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beirutfilmsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.beirutfilmsociety.org<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5190139\/\">https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5190139\/<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/samlahoud\/?hl=en\">@samlahoud<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samlahoudlb\">@SamLahoudLb<\/a><br \/>\nEmail:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:slahoud.bfs@gmail.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">slahoud.bfs@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this edition of the\u00a0WLCU Youth #Community Talks we were joined by\u00a0Sam Lahoud, founding chair of the Beirut Film Society, to discuss Lebanese filmmaking and the industry! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 05 Sam Lahoud (Lebanon) &#8211; &#8220;Lebanese Cimena: Voices of the Youth &amp; Responsible Filmmaking&#8221; June 20th, 2020 Video: Facebook | &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":23942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[983,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page","category-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sam-Lahoud-Post-01-1-e1595470429559.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23939"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24154,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23939\/revisions\/24154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}