Bio

Ahmad Mahmoud dropped out from engineering school to pursue a career in filmmaking. Coming from such polar opposite fields the shift was difficult, as Sudan’s local filming industry and community was very small and underfunded. Luckily, Ahmad got an opportunity to participate in a documentary filmmaking workshop and was later offered a scholarship for a course in Video Journalism in Mexico. He spent the next few years in Nairobi, Kenya working as a freelance videographer, and returned to Sudan in 2014 where he continued freelancing in producing and directing short documentaries for national and international NGO. This includes UNICEF and WFP among others, as well as broadcasters such as BBC and CNN. He is currently developing his first feature fiction film Spectres of Alhoot.

Filmography

• SPECTERS OF ALHOOT
  Director, cinema fiction, 90 minutes, pre-production stage