Career
Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (22 November 1981), he would later move with his family back to Egypt. He began his directing career primarily with short movies and commercials, after which he shifted to full-length movies. Amr Salama"s released his first feature movie, Zay El Naharda On a Day Like Today, in 2008.
The movie was enthusiastically received among critics, and was the movie for which Salama was awarded the title of "Best New Director in 2008." In 2009, Salama submitted the script for a second movie, Excuse my French (film), based on, by his own admission, his experiences at a public middle school in Egypt after his return from Saudi Arabia.
Excuse my French tells the story of Hany Abdulla Sousa, a student at a private international school who comes from a Coptic family. After the death of his father the family’s socio-economic status drops and he is forced to go to a public school, where he is routinely confronted with episodes of bullying on the part of his classmates.
Rejected by the Censorship Board on the ground that "there is no sectarianism in Egypt," Salama started working on what would become his second creation, the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-themed Asmaa, which earned him international attention. After the 2011 Revolution, the director renewed his attempt by submitting again the script for Excuse my French, however the script was rejected again.
With the appointment of another movie director to the Censorship Board, Ahmed Awad, the movie was finally approved.
The little girl gets her wish and the plot continues with the brother being mischievous in the stuffed animal"s body, while the stuffed animal does much more in the brother"s body than he was doing in lieutenant
