Md. Taqi Yasir
New York proficient Saudi actress-helmerAhdKamel is most familiar for her role as the tutor in “Wadjda.” As an executive, she established consideration with her 2013 short “Sanctity,” which premiered at the Berlinale. She’s shelling her first feature, in her home town of Jeddah. She said in an interview about her film career when she was asked about her latest project and about the film’s proceedings and common views, she said, “The film is called “My Driver and I,” and it’s a coming-of-age story about a Saudi girl growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, and her friendship with her driver. I’m making this film because I grew up with a driver, who practically raised me, took me back and forth to school every single day, and when my parents passed away when I was a teenager, he was the only person who could rein me in. He really taught me a lot of the lessons I learned in life, but I only came to realize this about 10 years ago, after he passed away. It really hit me that I had taken this person for granted, and I also realized that I knew very little about his life. So essentially this film is an homage; it’s a way of saying thank you, and at the same time it’s about independence: He drives her in a car but at some point she has to take the wheel of her own life.”