Ayman El Amir is an Egyptian filmmaker and script consultant. His work as a filmmaker includes directing and producing, with Nada Riyadh, the feature-length documentary The Brink of Dreams (2024), which had its premiere in La Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes, when it won the Œil d'or. He also produced the short fiction film Fakh (The Trap; 2019), which also screened in La Semaine de la Critique as well as at the Toronto International Film Festival. El Amir has also worked as a script consultant, mentor, and jury member for numerous programs, labs, funds, and institutes, including the TorinoFilmLab, La Fabrique at Cannes, the Doha Film Institute, the IDFA Bertha Fund, EAVE, the Atlas Workshops, the Full Circle Lab, the Hot Docs Documentary Fund, the Netflix MENA Accelerator Lab, and the DW Academy. Among the projects he has worked on as a consultant are the Sudanese film Goodbye Julia (2023) and the Chilean film The Settlers (2023), both of which were selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes; and Pierce (2024), from Singapore, which was presented at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.