Usef Salah

Editor, Artist, and Director in Oakland, California

10 years experience in Egyptian film industry. Expertise: Video production, post-production, sound design and mixing and mastering. Fluent in Arabic and English. Skilled in Final Cut, Premiere, After Effects, DaVinci, Plural Eyes, Logic, Pro Tools. Currently seeking editing work. Also shoots and directs.

Produce, direct and edit music videos for Arab hip-hop artists Qusai (of Arab’s Got Talent), Arabian Knights and MC Amin. Umm El-Dunia got 3.4+ million views. 15 videos to date.

For AJ+ Shooter and editor for the Tunisia After the Revolution And the Arab Spring short doc, Shooter and editor for the #NoDAPL Monitor North Dakota Police short doc and
Shooter for; On The Front Lines, Fighting The Dakota Access Pipeline short doc.

Edited 10 short films for Virtual Cloud Filmmaking Salon by Moxie Institute in San Francisco featuring Film Clinic in Cairo, Egypt.

Post-production Manager / Coordinator, Film Editor, Sound Designer at Film Clinic helped in Editing two feature films, one documentary and 10 commercials, reels and trailers. Film “Clash” was in the grand premiere of the Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated by Egypt for the Oscars.

  • Work
    • Media Production
  • Education
    • computer science