Mahmoud Kaabour is a Lebanese-German filmmaker and museum consultant who grew up in the Gulf. He studied filmmaking at Mel Oppenheim School of Cinema in Montréal, Canada and began his career at the CBC & The National Film Board.

His feature documentaries received numerous Best Film & Audience awards, including Tribeca’s $100,000 Audience Award for Grandma, A Thousand Times, presented personally by Robert de Niro. In 2015, he received Esquire Magazine’s Humanitarian Award and was named to the list of 100 Most Powerful Arabs Under 40 following the release of Champ of the Camp, his documentary about a singing competition inside the labor accommodations of the UAE. Mahmoud’s latest undertaking has been the storytelling and multimedia of Asaan Heritage Museum, Misk Foundation’s latest offering in Diriyah, which he worked on for three years.