On Thursday morning, the 2nd of october 2012, as he was participating in the shooting of a feature film with the Syrian Director Mohammad Malas in Tartous, the cinema sound engineer Ghanem Almir was arrested by the Military Security Services of Tartous, in a hotel.His family and friends have not received any news from him since then.Ghanem Almir was born in Damascus, and gratuated from the university of Paris VIII in Film Studies. He worked a long time in France within the field of cinema. Then he came back in Syria, his native country. He knew how to put his expertise to good use in Syrian Cinema in collaborating on many short, feature and documentary films.Ghanem Almir is considerated as one of the most brillant sound engineer in Syria, and contributed in the development of sound-recording and sound-engineering in the Cinema.He notably worked on the documentary film La Route des Rois (2010-France) written and directing by Christophe Cousin, I am the one who brings flowers on...
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إلى السينمائي غانم المير - مهندس الصوت الحاضر دائما حضور الصورةهذا الهدير ليس عيبا في تسجيل الصوت، إنه صوت طائرة الميغ التي تحلق معظم الوقت فوق دمشق هذه Publiée le 24 oct. 2012 par R. Al-Ghazzi
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BESOIN DE VOTRE AIDE Qu’est-ce qu’un fixeur ?Pour une équipe de tournage, un fixeur, c’est la clé de la porte d’entrée d’un pays. Un fixeur c’est celui qui généralement nous aide tant au niveau de la recherche des histoires, des personnages, des itinéraires… Que de la prise en charge de la logistique, des traductions…C’est ainsi que j’ai rencontré un jour en Syrie, sur la route des Rois, Ghanem Almir Leprince, ingénieur du son syrien et cinématographe… Ghanem est vite devenu un merveilleux compagnon de route, et un ami.Il a eu le courage de maintenir son engagement auprès du cinéma syrien malgré les violences et la répression qui sévissent aujourd’hui dans son pays, convaincu par le rôle que peut jouer le cinéma dans la voie qui conduit à la liberté et à la démocratie…Dans la matinée du 2 octobre 2012 et alors qu’il participait au tournage d’un long métrage aux côtés du réalisateur Mohammad Malas à Tartous (Syrie), Ghanem...
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English Version On Tuesday morning, the
2nd of october 2012, as he was participating in the shooting of a feature film
with the Syrian Director Mohammad Malas in Tartous, the sound engineer and filmmaker
Ghanem Almir was arrested by the Military Security Services of Tartous, in a
hotel. His family and friends
have not received any news from him since then.Ghanem Almir was born in
Damascus, and gratuated from the university of Paris VIII in Film Studies. He
worked a long time in France within the field of cinema. Then he came back in
Syria, his native country. He knew how to put his expertise to good use in
Syrian Cinema in collaborating on many short, feature and documentary films.Ghanem Almir is considerated
as one of the most brillant sound engineer in Syrian, and contributed in the
development of sound-recording and sound-engineering in the Cinema.He notably worked on the
documentary film La Route des Rois...
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