George Tarabay’s award winning short film “Civil but not civilized” was a 2009 NDU senior film project. This film was the first film produced at NDU to be entered in an international festivals’ tour (10 in total), and the first film selected from among 5,112 film entries from 78 countries at the world’s number one short film festival: Clermont-Ferrand International. Only 72 films were selected from 52 countries, and “Civil… But Not Civilized” was among them.
Today, after eight years, French institutes and the French embassy decided to showcase six Lebanese films that were officially selected by Clermont-Ferrand International, during the course of the past two decades, and again Tarabay’s film was among the six.
His film was screened in many regions around Lebanon, namely Beirut, Zahle, Der el-Kamar and Jounieh.
George Tarabay is an independent Lebanese filmmaker who received support in 2015 from the Sundance Institute (USA), the world’s leading independent film institute and film festival, and also he received co-production support in 2012 from the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.
Tarabay stated that Filmmakers do not apply ready-made formulas, but instead create their own to execute them with their unique vision.
Today, he is the project developer of the DAVA at NDU, and also the program executive at the NDU International Film Festival (NDUIFF).