Abdullah Al-Eyaf
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| Abdullah Al-Eyaf | |
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| Image:Abdullah. Aleyaf.jpg | |
| Birth name | Abdullah Al-Eyaf Al-Qahtani |
| Born | Image:Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Khobar, KSA |
Abdullah Al-Eyaf (عبدالله آل عياف) is a Saudi film director also known as Abdullah Eyaf and Abdullah Aleyaf. He directed two films. His first film is a 42-minutes documentary film Cinema 500 km which discusses the cinema theaters ban in Saudi Arabia by following a young Saudi movie fan during his first trip ever outside the country just to experience his first ever film in a theater. Al-Eyaf's second project was a 19 minutes short film called Etaar (aka A Frame) which had won the Special Jury Award (GCC) in Emirates Film Competition in March 2007.
Abdullah Al-Eyaf works as an engineer for a living, he write a weekly column in Alriyadh which is a famous Saudi newspaper. He also established and edited a weekly cinema page for the Alwatan newspaper.
