Considering the continuous comparison between novels and the films adapted from them, this discussion sheds the light on how storytelling differs between the medium of literature and the medium of cinema.
He studied journalism and media at the University of Damascus, and worked and wrote in the Arab and Saudi cultural and artistic press, in the newspapers "Al-Riyadh" and "Al-Youm" between (2003-2017), keeping pace with the movement of the Saudi film industry since its beginnings. Ali Saeed also wrote the script for a number of winning screenplays, such as (Green Lemon), (Compass), (Antidote), (Pianist) and others, he has a short film entitled (Old Phone Number) that won the 2021 Script Award at the Saudi Film Festival and was produced to be screened at the opening ceremony of the eighth session of the Saudi Film Festival 2022. He produced two feature films (Antidote) for the Saudi Film Commission and a feature-length documentary titled (The Story of the King of Journalism) and a film (Green Lemon) for MBC1, in 2015. He has three published books, which are: (The Leather Bag: (Health of Thinkers, Writers, and Artists), a historical book entitled (Al-Dana) and the novel (Konica 19).
Youssf Ibrahim is a screenwriter born in Dubai in 1972. He started writing short films in 1999 and has worked on three feature films titled It Was a Dream (2003), Birth (2016) and You Will Die at Twenty (2019). Ibrahim received many honours and awards for You Will Die at Twenty, including Best Script at the Carthage Film Festival in 2020, The Lion of the Future award for best feature film at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and the Golden Star for Best Feature Narrative Film at El Gouna Film Festival in 2019.