Hady ZACCAK
Institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques – Chargé d'enseignement
+961 (1) 421 000 ext 5366 hady.zaccak@usj.edu.lb
Hady Zaccak is a Lebanese filmmaker and teacher-researcher at IESAV, Saint-Joseph University of Beirut. He is the author of more than 20 award-winning documentaries in several Arab and international festivals including: “Ya Omri” (2017, Jury Prize) “104 rides”) (Jury Prize, Malmo Arab Film Festival, Sweden, 2017), “Kamal Joumblatt, Witness and Martyr” (2015) (Francophonie Trophy for Best Documentary 2016), “Marcedes” (2011) (FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize, Dubai International Film Festival, 2011), “A History Lesson” (2009) (1st prize, Arab Film Festival, Rotterdam 2010), “The War for Peace” (2007), “Refugees for Life” (2006)…In addition to his films, Zaccak is the author of two books on cinema: “The Last Projection, a biography of Cilama Tripoli” (2021) and “Lebanese Cinema, a Cinema’s Journey to the Unknown (1929-1996)” (1997).In 2022, Zaccak presented his exhibition “In this place: Reels of Beirut” (2022) at the Mina Image Centre in Beirut. This year, he will present his new feature film: “Cilama”. He is a PhD candidate at Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne and Saint-Joseph University of Beirut.
Education
| Diplôme | Université | Pays | Année |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master in Cinema | Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth | Lebanon | 2024 |
| Maitrise en etudes audiovisuelles et cinematographique- option realisation | Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth | Lebanon | 2001 |
| Audiovisual Studies | Saint Joseph University of Beyrouth | Lebanon | 1997 |
Teaching at USJ
University teaching outside USJ
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Professional experience outside USJ
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Research themes
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">HadyZaccak a troqué sa plume avec la caméra pour se servir du film documentaire afinde revisiter l’Histoire du Liban et de la region et préserver la Mémoire de son peuple, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Eneffet, il s’est essayé, auparavant, à l’écriture avec un ouvrage traitant del’histoire globale du Cinéma Libanais écrit<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>en français et intitulé<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/cinemalibanais.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Le cinémalibanais : itinéraire d'un cinéma vers l'inconnu"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (1929-1996) (édition Dar elMachreq, Beyrouth 1997) puis </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">al-ʿArḍ al-akẖīr:sīraẗ sīlamā Ṭarābulus” (<i>The Last Film Screening, a biography ofCilama Tripoli) </i> (</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ZACFilms/dar el furat, Beyrouth, 2021)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. Il a égalementréalisé deux documentaires sur le cinéma libanais : </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/LebanonthroughCinema.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Lebanonthrough cinema"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> (2003) (<i>le Liban à travers le cinéma</i>) et </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/CinemaofwarinLebanon.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Cinemaof war in Lebanon"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> (2003) (<i>Cinéma de guerre au Liban</i>).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">De 2000 à 2011, il filme la métamorphose progressive de Beyrouth et du Liban àtravers les périodes de paix et de guerre avec leurs répercussions sociales etenvironnementales à travers<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>les films : </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/BeirutPointsofview.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Beirut…Pointsof view"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (2000) <i>(Beyrouth…Points de vue)</i>, </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/TheWarofpeace.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"The War ofPeace"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (2007) <i>(la guerre de la paix)</i>, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/TheOilspillinLebanon.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"The Oil Spillin Lebanon" </span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">(2007) <i>(la marée noire au Liban)</i> , </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/sunniechoesfromlebanon.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Shi'aEchoes from Lebanon"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (2007) <i>(Echos chiites du Liban)</i>, </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/sunniechoesfromlebanon.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"SunniEchoes from Lebanon"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (2008) <i>(Echos sunnites du Liban)</i>, et<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/taxibeirut.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Taxi Beirut"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (2011). <br>Ce qui finit par le conduire naturellement à s’essayer d’écrire par le film,l’Histoire du Liban avec </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/ahistorylesson.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"a HistoryLesson"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> <i>(une leçon d’Histoire)</i> en 2009, </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/marcedes.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Marcedes"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> en 2011 ,</span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/honeymoon58.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Honeymoon58"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> <i>(lune de miel 58) </i>en 2013 et <u>« Kamal Joumblatt, witnessand martyr » </u><i>(Kamal Joumblatt, témoin et martyr) </i>en 2015, "Ya Omri" (104 rides) en 2017 et "Cilama" en 2024. <br>Sa filmographie nous mène aussi à la découverte d’autres capitales depays arabes avec </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/SindbadinBaghdad.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Sindbad inBagdad"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (2003)<i> (Sindbad à Bagdad) </i>et</span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/taxisanaa.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> "TaxiSana'a"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (2012) ainsi que la cause palestinienne avec </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/10001000Nights.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"1000 and 1000Nights" </span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">(<i>les Mille et Mille Nuits</i>) en 1999 et </span><span lang="FR"><a href="http://www.hadyzaccak.com/Refugeesforlife.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext">"Refugees forlife"</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> (Réfugiés à Vie) en 2006.<br><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Le documentaire lui permet ainsi defaire revivre l’Histoire afin de lire le présent et lutter contre l’amnésie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
Publications and communications
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" space="" toaster";mso-bidi-font-family:arial;color:navy"="">Filmographie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="Default"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif;="" mso-bidi-language:ar-lb"="">-Cilama (2024-89 minutes)</span></p><p class="Default"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif;="" mso-bidi-language:ar-lb"="">-104 rides / Ya Omri (2017-82 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Default"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif;="" mso-bidi-language:ar-lb"="">-Kamal Joumblatt, témoin et martyr (2015-96 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Default"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb;mso-bidi-language:ar-lb"="">-Honeymoon 58 (2013-15 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Default"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb;mso-bidi-language:ar-lb"="">-Taxi Sana'a (2012-52 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Default"><span style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb;mso-bidi-language:ar-lb"="">-Marcedes (2011-68 min.)</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:AR-LB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif;="" mso-ansi-language:en-us"="">-Taxi Beyrouth (2011-51 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-Uneleçon d’histoire (2009-51 min.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-EchosSunnites du Liban (2008-52 min.)</span><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif;="" mso-ansi-language:en-us"=""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>-Echos Shiites du Liban (2007-52 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-LaGuerre de la Paix (2007-53 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-LaMarée noire au Liban (2007-34 min.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">-</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">Réfugiéspour la vie (2006-48 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">-</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">TaufiqSalih (2006-27 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:="" fr"="">-Les Chiites (2005-52 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:="" fr"="">-Les C</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">optes (2004-53 min.)</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:="" fr"="">-Les Néo-Missionaires (2004-52 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-Cinémade guerre au Liban (2003-33 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-Sindbad à Bagdad (2003-27min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-Le Liban à travers le cinéma(2003-15 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-Beyrouth…Points de vue(2000-32 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-1000et 1000 Nuits (1999-15 min.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:" arial",sans-serif"=""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:144.0pt;text-indent:36.0pt"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:" space="" toaster";="" mso-bidi-font-family:arial;color:navy"="">Bibliographie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText3"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText3" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-“Le Cinéma Libanais,itinéraire d’un cinéma vers l’inconnu”(1929-1996)</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">, Dar el Machreq, Beyrouth,1997. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText3" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="">-<b>"Images& Ethique", </b>ouvrage collectif sous la direction d’Elie Yazbeck–éditionl'Harmattan, Paris, 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">-</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">« Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa”</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">, ouvragecollectif sous la direction de Viola Shafik, AUC, Le Caire, Egypte, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">al-ʿArḍ al-akẖīr: sīraẗ sīlamāṬarābulus” (<i>The Last Film Screening, a biography of Cilama Tripoli)</i>, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">ZAC Films, Beirut,2021, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">618pages- Size: 31*25.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:" times="" new="" roman";="" mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:="" "times="" roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-no-proof:yes"="">“</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> Ṭarābulus fi ouyoun abna’iha waljiwar”, <i>(Tripoli in the eyes of its people and the neighbourhood</i></span></b><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><b><i><span lang="AR-SA" dir="RTL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:="" "times="" new="" roman";mso-hansi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:="" minor-latin;background:white;mso-ansi-language:en-gb"=""><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>(</span></i></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Jarrous Publishers, Tripoli, 2023.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;="" mso-fareast-font-family:calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-no-proof:yes"=""><o:p></o:p></span></p><br><p></p>
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