---
name: "Joe Saade"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-saade"
fi1m_id: "joe-saade"
imdb_id: "nm8090876"
tmdb_id: 1984073
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:07:04.736000+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joe Saade

## Identity

Joe Saade

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joe-saade
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joe-saade
- **IMDb ID:** nm8090876
- **TMDB ID:** 1984073
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8090876/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1984073

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8090876/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1984073

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*House of Guinness*](https://film.one/tv/house-of-guinness.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Joe Saade is a Lebanese cinematographer based in Beirut. His credits include the feature films *Joyland* (2022), directed by Saim Sadiq, *Costa Brava, Lebanon* (2021) and *Broken Keys* (2020), both directed by Mounia Akl, and the short film *Submarine* (2016), for which he received a Kodak award for excellence in cinematography.

Saade has worked on the Netflix series *House of Guinness* (2025), directing photography on three episodes directed by Mounia Akl, and on the BBC series *The Responder* (2024), also directed by Akl. He has shot fiction, documentaries, music videos and commercials, and has worked internationally in locations including the UK, Pakistan, Kenya and the United States.

*Sources: imdb.com, joesaade.com, en.wikipedia.org, britishcinematographer.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *House of Guinness* (2025), Fi1m 74, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/tv/house-of-guinness.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Sad and Beautiful World* (2026), Director of Photography
- *House of Guinness* (2025), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/house-of-guinness.md)
- *Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano* (2023), as Director of Photography
- *The Key* (2023), Director of Photography
- *Joyland* (2022), Director of Photography
- *Costa Brava, Lebanon* (2022), Director of Photography
- *Broken Keys* (2022), Director of Photography
- *This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own* (2021), Cinematography
- *Beating Hearts* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Underdown* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Palimpsests* (2017), Director of Photography
- *The President's Visit* (2017), Cinematography
- *El Gran Libano* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Submarine* (2016), Director of Photography

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