Bassam Alasad
Managing director and CCO at Creative Media solutions and Producers Guild of America member (Jordan and MENA representative), Produced and co-produced several Projects Films, Reality shows and Digital content all around the region including the latest project "Born a King" and the upcoming feature film "Champions" as an executive producer.
Since 2014 Bassam started the green-producing journey and in 2018 Co-founded the media sustainability consultancy Greener screen in partnership with BAFTA.
Recenlty Bassam joined the global Impact Producers network.
in 2021 Bassam Joined Amman International Film Festival team as the Head of Industry during the second edition of the festival.
Background
Back in 2006, Bassam started as a TVC creative producer shifting his career from Marketing, His Business degree helped shape his producing skills with several producing workshops both artistic and technical started.
Started his career by producing and directing TVCs, TV short documentaries, news features and TV Programs for several TV stations in the region include LBC, Al Jazeera, Sharjah media, Dubai TV, FOX Movies, and several independent productions includes two experimental documentaries and a short fiction film.
in 2014, Bassam became a member of the Producers Guild of America in the New media council.
2015 Bassam was part of the preliminary judging panel for the mashies awards and Since 2017 Bassam is serving as a Jury member for the PGA Diversity workshop and in 2018 was invited to be a jury member at the newly formed students' film festival FilmED and ON DXB to judge the film contest.
At the moment Bassam is the Chief Content Officer for Creative media Solutions/Integracast a lead regional company specialised in Edutainment Development and Green Production, through this job developed, produced and commissioned several projects since 2011.
In 2017 Bassam co-founded Greener Screen in Dubai and Amman a social enterprise aim to help the media industry in the region to become a net-zero emission by 2030.
In 2021 Bassam joined Amman International Film Festival as the head of Industry and led the effort to create a diverse program that covered several themes mainly focused on Impact of the industry and the future.
Top Produced Projects
Documentaries
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Produced and Directed many films to support the Educational development movement in Jordan with many organisations Such as Her Majesty Queen Rania's educational program "Madrasati", Newspaper in education program in Jordan, CMN-Jordan and CDFJ.
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"History of you Museum" Short documentary.
Independent Production
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Desert Mall (Short documentary)
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“Life for rent” was selected as a recommended title in Dubai film festival's - film-mart in 2012 and
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short animation film "blackout" was screened at the international press congress - Amman 2013.
TV Production
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Al Batal Season 2 - Executive producer, FOX Movies, FOX and Icflix 2014
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Produced and directed UAE's PSA for earth hour 2015
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Short documentaries series for the eastern area in Sharjah
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Executive Producer Sharjah media Programs (Wousta Channel).
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Producer Lel Seha Enwan Season 1 - Abu Dhabi TV
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Pilot episode Beduin Drama - Qalb Al Hor
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Pilot Episode Animation series - Union Force.
In Development Projects
Fiction
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Montreal / Producer
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Bissan / Director
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Untitled Saudi TV series
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Untitled Comedy series
Feature films
Released
Fiction
Born a king - Co-Producer (Produced by Andres V Gomez and Creative media solutions).
Khorfakkan - Distribution consultant
Post-Production
Champions - Executive Producer
Digital Production
Non-Fiction
Executive Producer Lush MENA content 2017-2018
Champions without borders/interactive documentary series - Creator - Executive Producer.