Samer Beyhum

A Lebanese-Canadian activist filmmaker with a divers background in directing, editing, sound design, theater and photography. Samer has worked with various NGO's and United Nations bodies and at one point represented Lebanon at the 1997 Rio +5 Global Youth forum in Seoul, Korea. He became interested in photo-journalism, theater and filmmaking during his senior high-school year and moved on to become the director of the Lebanese Environment Information Center's Press Unit well before graduating from university with a BA in Communication Arts. Ever since then, he participated in the making of several short films and documentaries, countless of theater productions, numerous radio magazine shows, edited and color corrected two Lebanese drama series, added grate value to a socio-political Lebanese talk show with his powerful edits, and directed two theatrical plays, three short films and two feature documentaries. In 2006 He was hired as a senior editor for a regionally prestigious production house based in Dubai where he edited many anti-war and peace promoting adverts for Iraq and rebuilt the production house's facility to accommodate modern standards. During his two year stint in Dubai his editing room became known as the miracle room because of his ability to salvage productions that would have otherwise had to be re-shot due to production problems. Samer immigrated to Montreal in 2008 and became involved with the various activist causes, often photographing protests for social justice and expatriate Arab Spring protester and eventually becoming heavily involved in the Montreal chapter of the Occupy movement before he assisted in the founding of the 99%Media group which helped cover the Quebec Maple spring student protest and highlighted cases of social justice.