Mo Ali
Mohamed Ali محمد علي | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mecca, saudi arabia |
| Occupation | film director |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Mo Ali (Somali: Maxamed Cali, Arabic: محمد علي) is a Somali-British film and television director.
Biography
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Ali was born in Saudi Arabia.[1] He rose to prominence after directing several prominent grime and house music videos in the early 2000s including the first video for Lethal Bizzle's "Pow (Forward)",[2] Skepta's "Rolex Sweep" and Boy Better Know's "Too Many Man".
He began his movie career in 2010, making his directorial debut in the drama film Shank, set in a futuristic London.[3][4]
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 author and philosopher Jeff Lint.[5]
He directed the second block of COBRA series 2 starring Robert Carlisle and Victoria Hamilton for New Pictures and Sky and is currently in pre production on a new series PILOT SKIES starring Idris Elba. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Filmography
[edit | edit source]- Shank (2010)[6]
- Montana (2014)[7]
- Somaliland: The Documentary (2018)[8]
- Breathe (2021)[9]
- COBRA (2021, 2 episodes)
- Hijack (2023, 2 episodes)
See also
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External links
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