Heba Abdelghani talks to "Speciali" about her experience in judging festivals and the series was a "defining point" in her history.

An Egyptian artist who is distinguished by her strong performance and embodiment of always difficult roles. She has several successes in Egyptian cinema and drama, other than her activities in festivals. The last thing she did was her participation in the Alexandria Festival and the Ghamam Island series that was shown last Ramadan. She is the distinguished artist, Heba Abdelghani.

"Speciali" had a special meeting with the beautiful artist, Heba Abdel-Ghani, and we asked her about several things..and to the text of the interview:

1. At the outset, tell us about her participation as a jury member in the Alexandria Film Festival?

It is the first time that I participate in this festival, and I am a jury member in the student film competition, and I am very happy with this experience, because I dealt with great professors such as Majdi Al-Tayeb and Samir Farag, and I benefited a lot from them.

2. For the second time, you are going through the experience of film arbitration in festivals.. What about the behind-the-scenes experience?

Indeed, the second time, because this time it was at the Vision Youth Film Festival organized by the National Cinema Center, and I watched a very different group of films, and the jury was distinguished and included the critic Ahmed Shawky and the young director Mohamed Hammad. I used to think that arbitration in festivals is a difficult task, but I discovered many things in it. Beautiful, like it gives me the opportunity to see fun projects and experiments and it was in amazing things, we watched 30 experiments with important and different ideas.

3. The festival brought you together with the Syrian artist Ahmed Al-Ahmad, who was also a member of the jury.. How was the first interaction between you?

One of the advantages of the Alexandria Festival is that I got to know artists from different countries, and I did not imagine that. The artist Ahmed Al-Ahmad is a member of the jury in the feature film competition, and I am happy that I got to know him.

4. Let's move on with Heba Abdel-Ghani to talk about her role in Ghamam Island, which had a wide resonance with the audience.. Do you see it as a turning point in your career?

"Ghamam Island" is a turning point in the entire career of the drama, not just mine. It is a work that protects deep and simple meanings at the same time. It is an epic to correct the directions of the soul. It affected me on a human level as well, and not only artistically, in terms of logic, ideas and feelings that were accelerating, that occupied me personally. And my role made a difference to me a lot. The series won many awards at the level of the Arab world, and I was very happy with that, given that the Egyptian series was absent from Arab forums for a while, as it achieved views and love from the audience at the level of the entire Arab world?

5. Heba embodied more than one work in the context of horror. What do you think of the development of this type of drama, which Egypt has recently begun to focus on?

I played a role in the Wadi Al-Jin series, and another series that was not horror in the literal sense, but I see that Egypt has great skills in graphics, especially Aroma, the producer of the series “One Thousand and One Nights”, and this type of drama is really new in the entire Arab world market, we were not We touch on it, but we went to it because of the interests of the youth audience who love platform work and watch a lot of foreign works, and it is not a mistake to understand what the audience loves to produce, on the contrary, this is intelligence.

6. Do you follow Heba Abdelghani trends?

I like to watch it sometimes, when I have a cup of coffee, I go to the communication sites to see the latest trends and what the activists say on Twitter and Google.

7. In the end, are there any upcoming works that you have contracted for?

Until now, I am still reading several works, and I have not settled on a formal job.