Kim Beamish

Director

Biography

Australia

Kim Beamish is an award winning Australian filmmaker who has recently spent the last three years living in Cairo, Egypt, documenting the effects of Egypt's revolution and ongoing turmoil on a community of ordinary Egyptians. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, Film and Television School after having spent many years volunteering with community television station Channel 31 as well as working with Open Channel and Ska Tv in Melbourne, Australia. In 2006 Kim co-produced the film Just Punishment about the fight to save Van Nguyen from execution for drug smuggling in Singapore. Kim is presently researching new projects as well as working as a journalist and running his small production company, Non'D'Script. His 2015 documentary, The Tentmakers of Cairo, won Best Film at the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival.

Filmography

Just Punishment (2006)
The Tentmakers of Cairo (2015)
Oyster (2017)

Films Curated by AFF