directed by Wael Omar and Philippe Dib
A film within a film, In Search Of Oil & Sand won the "Best Director of Documentary Award, Arab World 2013" at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, for successfully merging two historical timelines and creating synthesis between past and present, fact and fiction. Produced by Mid West Production and Sarakene Ltd (seen in photo Mahmoud Sabet).
Adel Sabit served as Director of Photography. Princess Faiza played a princess of course and Princess Nevine Abbas Halim played a kidnapped American woman. British and American embassy staff played oil men and spies, while local Bedouins played the rebels. A British diplomat in Cairo played the role of an official of his country which supported the ousted monarch
Synopsis by Nile el Wardani
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