Mohydeen Izzat Quandour

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M.I. Quandour About the Director Mohy Quandour director/producer and screenwriter and author, is a veteran award winning filmmaker with over 30 years of film experience in Hollywood and in Europe. He cut his teeth in the film industry starting with advertising films at J. Walter Thompson and MPO studios in New York. Then moved to Hollywood in the early seventies and was best known for his Hollywood television work on such classics as Mannix and Bonanza. He went on to direct such films as “Cold Wind", "The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe" with Robert Walker and Cesar Romero, "Lost in Chechnya” and produced several award winning documentaries such as "The Last Horsemen" and “Musical Journey” and others for European TV networks such as Tele Hashette, the BBC and channel One in France. Quandour is also an established author/novelist with 20 historical novels published worldwide. Most of his novels were translated and published in several languages including Arabic Turkish and Russian. His most recent film productions are “Cherkess” (2010) which won him best Director & Best Film awards at the Monaco International Film festival and “The Prisoner” (2011) filmed in Russia & the UK with Julie Cox and Andrei Cherneshev and "A Facebook Romance" in 2013. Mohy Quandour combined his varied career between business and the creative fields, often interchanging between them over a period of 30 years. Quandour is also a classical music composer whose recent works are being performed in Japan and in many European venues (youtube.com under Quandour). He is president and partner in the film production company Sindika Productions. (www.sindikaproductions.com). His most popular literary works are 'The Kavkas Trilogy', 'Revolution', 'The Last Hunt'. On 31 May, 2005 Quandour was awarded the medal and prize of the Golden Cross in Moscow for his contributions to the "Culture of the Fatherland". He was also awarded the title of "Author of the people (Narodni Pesatle) in the Russian Federation on April 5th, 2008. Quandour divides his residence between Windsor, England and Istanbul, Turkey. Recent Films

Cherkess Director/Screenplay Sindika Productions The Prsoner Director/Screenplay Sindika Productons A Facebook Romance Director/Screenplay Sindika Productions The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe Director Cinerama Cold Wind Director/Screenplay Cintel Productions Education

Stanford University & Claremont Graduate School, MA. MIS. Ph.D., Studies: economics & history Awards

Monaco International Film Festival, Best Director, Best screenplay, Best Film, 2010 Malatya (Turkey) International Film festival, Best Director 2012 Sindika Productions web page: This is a partnership between Mohy Quandour and his wife Luba Balagova. It is active in European and Middle Eastern co productions developing projects in Turkey, France and the UK. The company has been active since 2009 and has produced 3 features films as mentioned above. It is based in Windsor United Kingdom (The Coach House, Burfiled Road, Old Windsor) and Istanbul Turkey (Elysium, 3 Kazem Orbay Cad. 24, Bomanti Sisli, Istanbul) web page: www.sindikaproductions.com

Works

FILMS Mohy Quandour is a veteran film maker who started his journey in Hollywood with such classic TV productions as Mannix and BONANZA. His most recent feature films are CHERKESS (2010), THE PRISONER (2012) and A FACEBOOK ROMANCE (2013).

Books

Fiction The Skyjack Affair Rupture Robina Family The Last Hunt The Roma Queen

Historical Fiction The Legend Desert Sunrise Iraq-Desert Crossings Dangerous Encounters Lost in Chechnya The Flying Cavalry – Cherkess Ethem story The Plot – Sultan Abdulhamid Story Sunset of Innoncence Qama and the Scimitar Ivan and Maria- Story of Maria temrukovna & Ivan the Terrible.

The Circassian Historical Saga Series The Kavkas Trilogy The Cherkess Trilogy Sabers of Chechnia Kazbek Triple Conspiracy The Balkan Story Children of the Diaspora

None-Fiction Muridism A study of the Russian-Caucasian Wars Marlin Added by author

Films

As a film producer and director, Quandour spent several years in Hollywood working in television production on such series as Manix and Bonanza. Later he directed several films including The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, Cold Wind, Eagle's Wings, and Yanco. His most recent films are Cherkess (2010), The Prisoner (2011), and A Facebook Romance (2013). He is currently president and senior partner of Sindika productions and actively developing projects (Sindika Productions) to produce/direct one feature film a year. He is also cofounder and partner of the SOCHI INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS Festival (SIFA)

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