Sherif El-Azma, born on 7th October 1975 in Manchester. Lives and works as a video artist in Cairo. Since 1997, he has been working on various projects in the film and video industry, for example as a video editor, production assistant and cameraman. He has produced five short films in Cairo since 1997, which span from classic documentaries to experimental film. His 2001 shortfilm "Interview with a Housewife" (7.5 minutes) - an interview with his mother - documents the situation of Egyptian women and was rewarded with the prize for Best Video Artist at the Nitaque Festival in Cairo. The most important theoretical element which recurs in his work is his examination of the contemporary Egyptian media language used in Egyptian documentaries and cinema film.