Bassem Breche is an Emmy-Award winning screenwriter and director. He started his career as an actor in Lebanon and the UK. He went on to direct three short films: Both (2007), Ziu (2013), and Free Range (2014), which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week. Breche has written several web series and films, including digital Emmy Award-winning Shankaboot (2009-2011), Fasateen (2012), The Little Drop (2015), Undocumented (2017), and Aleph (2018). He is the founder/director of Scenario Beirut, a collective of screenwriters based in Beirut. His most recent film, Riverbed, premiered at the Cairo International Film Festival in 2022.