Ziad Foty

As CEO my primary responsibilities include making major corporate decisions, managing the overall operations and resources of the company, acting as the main point of communication, and being the public face of the company.

Primary responsibilities include delivering the correct revenues which can be defined as a hard number, growth target, profit target and/or a market share goals. Secondary responsibilities include: Recruiting, Backfilling and overseeing Sales Team, Building the Sales Strategy, Devising Sales Tactics, and Creating and Selling Deals. The Vice President of Sales has the primary responsibility of delivering the right revenues; be that defined as a hard number, growth target, profit target and/or a market share goal. Secondary responsibilities include: Recruiting, Backfilling and Helping His/ Her Sales Team, Building the Sales Strategy, Devising Sales Tactics, and Creating and Selling Deals Him/Herself.

Teaching Media Production II which trains undergraduate students on the Theory and practice of the basic principles governing the disciplines of video and film. Also teaching Film and Social Change. This course deals with critical perspective; the aesthetic as well as the ideological worldview of the films made by non-European filmmakers whose work has been categorized by cultural historians as “Third cinema.”

At Foty Fusion Films, we create stories that challenge the dominant representation by telling underrepresented narratives about the human condition. Founder of Foty Fusion Films, Ziad Foty is an emerging independent director and writer based in the DMV area. His films seek to highlight underrepresented stories in an effort to challenge the dominant representation in film. Winner of the Best Documentary Film at the Paul Robeson Howard Film Festival for his film "Renaissance Man" (2017,) Ziad has recently completed short narrative film "El Mahal" (2019) and is in post-production on his debut feature documentary "Return to Ramallah" (2019.)

Instructing two film classes; Video Production for Film and Global Horror in the Film and Video Studies Department http://favs.gmu.edu/facultystaff/ In Video Production for Film students are taught pre-production, production, and post-production. They survey the basics of producing, screenwriting, cinematography (including camera and lighting), in-field sound recording, video/sound editing, and distribution and exhibition. Through hands-on production projects, in-class lectures/discussions, and screenings, students learn how to develop their audio-visual instincts and comprehension as up-and-coming filmmakers. Students are also taught the collaborative nature of filmmaking and encouraged to work together in teams. In Global Horror, students survey issues of class structure, censorship, and terror, as reflected in the horror film genre. Taking a historical approach through various national cinemas, the course begins with the genre’s literary and theatrical origins and traces its development into a modern (and postmodern) form of universal storytelling that is central to global understanding. The central outcome of the course is to be able to identify how horror texts both reflect and influence social and political circumstances across the world.

Foty Fusion Productions prides itself on locating a diverse pool of young talent in film schools across the U.S. and globally. We are energetic, motivated, efficient, and work at a competitive rate. We offer a fresh perspective that draws upon the innovation and creativity of a new generation of film-makers. Our team offers a full range of professional production and post-production services. In addition, Foty Fusion Productions creates original film content that challenges the dominant mode of representation in our ever-changing digital world, with cutting-edge innovation and unique conceptual design.