Mo Ali ( so, Maxamed Cali, ar, محمد علي) is a
Somali-
British
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film director.
Biography
Ali was born in
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
.
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 imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
author and philosopher Jeff Lint.
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Filmography
*'' Shank'' (2010)
*''Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...
'' (2014)
See also
* Cinema of Somalia
References
External links
*
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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