Director Khaled Sayed Bio:
Khaled Sayed is an award-winning documentary director, who worked as a lawyer in Egypt before he moved to the United States, where he studied Multimedia production at San Francisco State University, and began working as a film director and media consultant out of his office in San Francisco.
Khaled's first self-directed feature documentary, "Egypt: The Story Behind the Revolution," was released in 2011 and has won several awards at film festivals around the world. He has just released his second feature documentary, "Stories From Tahrir," which picks up where the first film left off, and shows the human complexities of the ongoing revolution in Egypt.
Over the course of his media career, Khaled has directed and produced commercials, documentaries, online campaigns, promos, and short films for a wide range of industries. He also brings a strong background in editing and storytelling to his work, as well as visual design.
In addition to his commercial experience, he has worked on multiple documentary projects supporting causes ranging from environmentalism to animal rights. His current project brings him back to his roots, as he continues to explore the stories of the people behind the revolution taking place in Egypt, where he was born.
Khaled currently spends much of his time speaking to classes and groups about the situation in Egypt, and attending film festivals and screenings of "Egypt: the Story Behind the Revolution" around the United States and around the world. A comfortable and engaging public speaker, Khaled frequently hosts lively and entertaining Q&A sessions with the audience after a screening, fielding questions about the current situation in Egypt, as well as the anticipated future of the revolution.