Deema Azar
- Producer
- Casting Department
- Script and Continuity Department
Deema Azar is a Jordanian film producer and script consultant. She is also co-founder and managing partner at TaleBox, a Amman-based production company which fosters new talents in Jordan and the Arab World.
Azar occupied the position of Regional Training Manager at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan between 2012 and 2016. She was also Head of Industry at the inaugural edition of the Amman International Film Festival in 2020.
Azar produced Darin J. Sallam's award-winning debut feature film FARHA (2021). The film world premiered at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival 2021, was selected as Jordan's official entry to the 95th Academy Awards (Oscars) 2023 and received the Best Youth Film award at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (the Asian Oscars), marking a historic first win for Jordan at APSA. She also produced the short film THE PARROT (2016), winner of the 2015 Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
A member of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and a Torino Film Lab Story Editing program alumna, Azar is also a script consultant who advised for several film entities regionally and internationally, conducted script development labs in addition to privately consulting on film projects.
Azar occupied the position of Regional Training Manager at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan between 2012 and 2016. She was also Head of Industry at the inaugural edition of the Amman International Film Festival in 2020.
Azar produced Darin J. Sallam's award-winning debut feature film FARHA (2021). The film world premiered at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival 2021, was selected as Jordan's official entry to the 95th Academy Awards (Oscars) 2023 and received the Best Youth Film award at the 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (the Asian Oscars), marking a historic first win for Jordan at APSA. She also produced the short film THE PARROT (2016), winner of the 2015 Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
A member of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and a Torino Film Lab Story Editing program alumna, Azar is also a script consultant who advised for several film entities regionally and internationally, conducted script development labs in addition to privately consulting on film projects.