Nader Elnakoury

Nader Elnakoury was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt in 1986, he grew up with his parents, in his early age, he loved doing crafts, that made him popular and unique between his family and friends in a very narrow scale, Surprisingly, he didn’t find much motivation to continue, despite of that, Elnakoury continued doing crafts and designing characters with clay in a very amateur way, parallel to that, he taught himself how to Edit on a very basic software, that made him aware more with the tempo and durations of things, First he started to do weddings slide shows for his relatives and friends, with only photos, as time goes by, he realised that he can work on videos editing, that encourages him to try shooting short videos as trails, he did lots of amateur Music video clips and short sketches with his friends, after a while, he wanted to mix his old talent with what he’s doing now, he discovered how to do Stop motion videos with clay, he wasn’t too good in the animation part at first, as he turned to a friend of his for some help, as they started to do various short movies with clay together, when they planned to Expand more in making stop motion movies, they got busy in studying and different life events, after a while, Elnakoury improved himself a bit in the shooting, editing and directing, as he started to do lots of short movies and Commercials for lots of students as their graduation projects, his name started to get bigger a bit, still in a narrow scale, He wanted to spread his short movies and commercials in a wider scale, as he didn’t plan anything to come from that, one day, his DVD that contains his work got in the hands of someone working in the film industry, as he called him to participate with him in a huge BBC world project shot in Louxor, aswan, abu simbel and Cairo, Elnakoury couldn’t believe himself as he left everything and traveled in the age of 17 to participate in such a big project with lots of experience

Elnakoury Benefited a lot from such an experience and made good connections in the film and commercials industry back then, which made him after that started to work in the Media field as a second assistant director in many projects in films and commercials, years passed, Nader Elnakoury became one of the big names in the market as an Executive director in the media field due to his dedication and hard work, he used to work with big names of directors in Egypt, in the middle east and around the world.

Between all that, Elnakoury got some offers to direct small projects, he believed that he couldn’t focus on two different job titles in the same time, as he used to give the assistant director’s job all his time and effort, after a while, in the age of 21, he got the offer to do his first commercial as a director, he enjoyed the experience a lot, as the offers continued to come for him as a director, he kept directing parallel to his job as an assistant director, One day, Elnakoury took the Decision, He quit the Assistant director’s job and focused on his dream job that he always wanted as a director

As a director, Elnakoury started to do different kinds of jobs from commercials, Tv programs Promos and Corporate Documentries, the one after the other,Nader started to build his own style in telling stories, Framing, shooting technique and colour theme
as time passed, Elnakoury got the chance to contribute as a 2nd Unit director in a huge production well known Tv series In Egypt back then, he did the job perfectly and gave him a big credit in doing drama work and acting based projects, which made him gain The trust of lots of Production houses, advertising agencies and Big clients in the market, as he continued doing lot of Tv commercials campaigns that made great impact in the market
Parallel to that, Elnakoury got lots of chances to work on projects as a Creative director for clients in egypt and in the Middle east, as he did some projects with unique concepts for different kinds of services and products

Also He continued his Journey in film making and commercials in lots of different countries in the middle east such as : Syria, Qatar, Dubai, Lebanon, Sudan... and many more
Nader ELnakoury continues spreading his name and style in the commercials and advertising, Drama and film industry till the moment of speaking and he’s always keen on trying new things and being creative in what he’s doing and he's intending to do more