Alot Like Films, alot like life

I have always believed that we shouldn't come to this life and leave without doing something, and so i always wanted to be as much creative as i can, i have a physical problem since i was born, i always wanted to challenge this problem and be the man i wana be, being so short as a result of that problem i suffered alot in my early teenage years, i started to write, and express my feelings, my late dad's love for cinema always fascinated me, he got us a video recorder at a very early age in my life, and i can still remember how many many many movies he used to watch weekly, he used to tell me stories about his visits to the movie theaters at Palestine when he was so young, and then in Amman later, i loved that magical world of films because of him, and that started my passion.

Years later i failed the secondary certificate (Tawjihi) Twice, Those two years were so hard to me, but the dream grew up, my dad got me a video camera though he wasn't happy about my failure, and at the age of 17 i started to make my home films, finally my family got to realise that i have to convert to literary stream which my mom was against to pass, and i did, and the dream came back to life.

I wanted to study filmmaking, everyone said i shouldent, except him, he encouraged me, stood by my side, and did his best to put me on the filmmaking track, couldnt enter Yarmouk University, and we started considering other options, Egypt was one of the closest, and Yarmouk itself was the other, and he died, yes.. he died, leaving me alone, at one night of 1998 he went to sleep with some little pain in his shoulder, and he didnt wake up, he was only 49..

I put my dream aside, choosing to stay with my family as the elder brother, my sisters were 11 and 9 and my brother was only 3 and a half years old, i was 20, i decided to study anything, leaving my dream for destiny, i went to Applied Science Uneversity (Al3oloom Altatbeeqeyyeh) to study English Translation, i kept writing poetry in a four good years, and the dream of cinema vanished.

Graduated in 2003, starting to discover Internet publishing features earlier, i started publishing my poems in different websites, got good feedbacks so i started sending web magazines and they published, made lot of friends, and met the lady who helped me out the most, i also started sending Alrai daily newspaper cultural section and published there many times, meanwhile i used to work with my uncle in photography, finding the second branch of Jubeiha studio together with Baker Dahamsheh the owner of the main Branch.

and one day.. the dream came true, it was something alot like films, my friend "Salah" read somthing about Amman Filmmakers Cooperative and its founder Hazim Bitar, The cooperative helps young dreamers to achieve their first short film, through filmmaking workshops, took me some time to find Hazim, i attended some workshops, made my first short "The Last Patch" while working in a famous advertising agency "Team Young & Rubicam" in order to make living, then made another two shorts "Amman in Red" and "Thursday", left my job in late 2006, and here i am: a Filmmaker..

Dedicated to my Late beloved father "Adnan Assaf"