Mo Ali ( so, Maxamed Cali, ar, محمد علي) is a
Somali
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British
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film director.
Biography
Ali was born in
Saudi Arabia
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.
He began his movie career in 2010, making his directorial debut in the drama film ''
Shank'', set in a futuristic
London
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.
Ali is sometimes confused with the other Mo Ali, a writer and artist featured among the cast of ''Lint the Movie'', a 2011 documentary on the cult
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Paral ...
author and philosopher Jeff Lint.
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Filmography
*'' Shank'' (2010)
*''Montana
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'' (2014)
See also
*Cinema of Somalia
The cinema of Somalia refers to the film industry in Somalia. The earliest forms of public film display in the country were Italian newsreels of key events during the colonial period. In 1937 the film Sentinels of Bronze (awarded in the Venice Fi ...
References
External links
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Somalian film directors
English people of Somali descent
Living people
Saudi Arabian people of Somali descent
Saudi Arabian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Year of birth missing (living people)
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