--- name: "Karim Amer" canonical: "https://film.one/person/karim-amer" fi1m_id: "karim-amer" imdb_id: "nm5255757" tmdb_id: 1739125 wikidata_id: "Q22115322" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "1 January 1984" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "producer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-03T01:02:23.243271+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." --- # Karim Amer ## Identity Karim Amer - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karim-amer - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** karim-amer - **IMDb ID:** nm5255757 - **TMDB ID:** 1739125 - **Wikidata ID:** Q22115322 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Amer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115322, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5255757/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1739125 Producer and director. Born 1 January 1984 in Egypt. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 1 January 1984, Egypt - **Active:** 2017–2019 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 producing - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Amer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22115322, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5255757/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1739125 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*The Great Hack*](https://film.one/film/the-great-hack.md) (65) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Karim Amer > Karim Amer is a producer and director who makes complicated systems approachable through individual lives. We value his ability to get close to the people involved, but *The Great Hack* also shows how his conclusions can outrun his evidence. In *The Great Hack* (2019), Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim make personal data seem worth worrying about. They follow the Cambridge Analytica scandal, making the collection of personal information comprehensible without treating it as a specialist concern. We were unsettled by the account of lost privacy, because the film makes clear why apparently trivial information is worth collecting. This is Amer's useful habit as a filmmaker: approaching complicated systems through the people involved. We recommend this particular introduction with reservations about how confidently it describes what the data can achieve. His early producing work includes a co-producer credit on *Rafea: Solar Mama* (2012) and producing *The Square* (2013), which follows activists in Tahrir Square. The shift towards technology in *The Great Hack* retains that interest in individual accounts of larger events. The later film began as a project about the Sony Pictures hack before developing into an examination of Cambridge Analytica. Following a changing story is part of his method, and Noujaim's frequent collaboration makes it unwise to treat the resulting films as Amer's work alone. For *The Great Hack*, Cambridge Analytica materials arrived late in production, evidence of the access Amer and his collaborators could secure. The difficulty comes when the film moves from explaining the collection of data to assessing its power to persuade. Here the filmmakers' confidence runs ahead of the evidence they present, leaving the extent of that power insufficiently established. We want a clearer indication of what they can prove before being asked to accept their conclusions. Subsequent directing and producing work includes *The Vow* (2020), about the NXIVM organisation, and *Flight/Risk* (2022), about Boeing whistleblowers. These subjects suit his recurring habit of using individual accounts to explain how organisations operate. His executive producing work includes the animated *The Breadwinner* (2017), while he produced Dina Amer's narrative feature *You Resemble Me* (2021). That is a broader slate than the investigative work alone suggests, though a producing credit cannot tell us which decisions were his. Start with *The Great Hack* for a clear introduction to data harvesting, and keep its claims about persuasion under scrutiny. ## Biography Karim Amer is an Egyptian-American film producer and director. Born on 10 November 1983 in Egypt, he studied at New York University. He produced *The Square* (2013), the first Egyptian film nominated for an Academy Award. He directed, wrote and produced the Netflix documentary *The Great Hack* (2019) with Jehane Noujaim, which premiered at Sundance and received BAFTA and Emmy nominations. Amer has also served as executive producer on *The Breadwinner* (2017) and produced *You Resemble Me* (2021) and *All That's Left of You* (2025). He is married to filmmaker Jehane Noujaim. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Directed (1) - *The Great Hack* (2019), Fi1m 65, Producer, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-hack.md) ### Produced (1) — the average rests on these - *The Breadwinner* (2017), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-breadwinner-2017.md) ## Complete filmography (15) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Man Will Burn* (2026), series, Executive Producer - *The Mission* (2026), Executive Producer - *All That's Left of You* (2025), Producer - *The Fake Mayor* (2024), Director - *Defiant* (2023), Producer, Director - *Handle with Extreme Care* (2023), Executive Producer - *Keys to the City* (2022), Executive Producer - *You Resemble Me* (2022), Producer - *The Lincoln Project* (2022), series, Executive Producer - *Flight/Risk* (2022), Producer, Director - *The Vow* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Director - *Revolution Rent* (2019), Executive Producer - *The Great Hack* (2019), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-hack.md) - *The Breadwinner* (2017), Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-breadwinner-2017.md) - *The Square* (2013), Producer, Sound ## Gallery - ![Karim Amer](https://film.one/media/person/680983/gallery-e5af2f36a71f.jpg) Karim Amer — Segolene Liger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Karim_Amer_at_the_Red_Sea_International_Film_Festival_2025_3.jpg/1280px-Karim_Amer_at_the_Red_Sea_International_Film_Festival_2025_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Karim Amer at a screening of his documentary The Square, in Mexico City. 30 January, 2014. Picture by Karloz Byrnison / Ambulante Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/680983/gallery-9f5869c12e63.jpg) Karim Amer at a screening of his documentary The Square, in Mexico City. 30 January, 2014. Picture by Karloz Byrnison / Ambulante Film Festival. — Festival Ambulante / Karloz Byrnison., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Karim_Amer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Karim Amer at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival 20251210](https://film.one/media/person/680983/gallery-8639dc5641cc.jpg) Karim Amer at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival 20251210 — Zafer, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Karim_Amer_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251210_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Karim_Amer_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251210_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Karim Amer at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival 20251210](https://film.one/media/person/680983/gallery-0025dc987492.jpg) Karim Amer at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival 20251210 — Zafer, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Karim_Amer_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251210_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Karim_Amer_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251210_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Karim Amer](https://film.one/media/person/680983/gallery-518071bc4783.jpg) Karim Amer — Image via TMDB - ![Karim Amer](https://film.one/media/person/680983/gallery-09c55824ece8.jpg) Karim Amer — Image via TMDB - ![Karim Amer at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival 20251210](https://film.one/media/person/680983/gallery-4595ddcd71c8.jpg) Karim Amer at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival 20251210 — Zafer, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Karim_Amer_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251210_%283%29.jpg/1280px-Karim_Amer_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251210_%283%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Karim Amer attends the The Settlement screening at the Red Sea International Film Festival 2025 on December 10, 2025 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1)](https://film.one/media/person/680983/gallery-2e79590338bb.jpg) Karim Amer attends the The Settlement screening at the Red Sea International Film Festival 2025 on December 10, 2025 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1) — Segolene Liger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Karim_Amer_at_the_Red_Sea_International_Film_Festival_2025_1.jpg/1280px-Karim_Amer_at_the_Red_Sea_International_Film_Festival_2025_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2014: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *The Square* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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