Kesmat Elsayed

Kesmat El Sayed is a producer, and co-founder of See Media Production Egypt and Seera Films GmbH Germany independent production company based in Berlin. She started producing since 2011 and launched her first international production "Althawra...khabar" (Reporting a revolution) which premiered at the Berlinale 2012. She started producing films independently in Egypt to focus on stories that are artistically crafted have social relevance and can reach a global audience. In 2020 she moved to Germany founded Seera Films GmbH and was shortly joined by Laura Kloeckner. Since then they have been able to release films internationally and work in co-production and producing creative documentaries and fiction films by filmmakers from Asia, Africa and the Arabic-speaking region amplifying systemically underrepresented voices of the global majority with high artistic value for local and international audiences. She has released three short documentaries and three feature documentaries that have premiered at international festivals and won awards. Kesmat is a Eave, Eurodoc, Realness Indaba and Berlinale Talent Alumni.