Fadel Al Mheiri

{{short description|Emirati filmmaker}}

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| name=Fadel Al Mheiri

| other_names=Fadel Al Muhairi

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| nationality= Emirati

| occupation=Filmmaker

| education=American University of Sharjah

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Fadel Al Mheiri is an Emirati filmmaker.{{cite web| url=http://www.thenational.ae/arts-lifestyle/dubai-international-film-festival/its-all-about-the-emirati-escapades-in-fadel-al-mheiris-abood-kandaishan| title=It's all about the Emirati escapades in Fadel Al Mheiri's Abood Kandaishan| author=Jessica Hill| date=December 11, 2014| publisher=The National| access-date=June 4, 2015}}{{cite web| url=http://m.screendaily.com/5080999.article| title=Fadel Almheiri, Abood Kandaishan| date=December 12, 2014| author=Melanie Goodfellow| publisher=Screen Daily| access-date=June 4, 2015}} He graduated from the American University of Sharjah.{{cite web| url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/mobile/inside.asp?xfile=/data/theuae/2007/October/theuae_October426.xml§ion=theuae| title=UAE film-maker hopeful of winning $100,000 grant| author=Silvia Radan| date=October 17, 2007| publisher=Khaleej Times| access-date=June 4, 2015| archive-date=March 12, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312170028/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/20071017/ARTICLE/310179950/1002| url-status=dead}}

Al Mheiri began making films at age 14. He has made six short films since 2001.{{cite web| url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/entertainment/2014/12/14/Short-films-shine-light-on-everyday-life-in-Dubai.html| title=Short films shine light on everyday life in Dubai| author=Stephanie Farah| date=December 14, 2014| publisher=Al Arabiya News| access-date=June 4, 2015}} In 2005, Al Mheiri produced the documentary Under Construction, which was about a construction worker waiting to be paid.

He wrote the drama A Corsair's Tale in 2007. It portrays two battles of Ras al-Khaimah where the British bombed the city of Julphar. The movie takes place in Ras al-Khaimah and India.{{cite web| url=http://m.gulfnews.com/entertainment/film-cinema/telling-tales-1.206512| title=Telling tales| author=Kelly Crane| date=October 14, 2007| publisher=Gulf News| access-date=June 4, 2015}}

Al Mheiri founded his own production company, Tent Pictures Productions, in 2013. His feature film, Abood Kandaishan, was filmed guerrilla-style with a small budget that was raised mostly from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Al Mheiri created Abood Kandaishan to show what life is like in Emirati homes. The film premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2014.{{cite web| url=http://m.gulfnews.com/entertainment/film-cinema/telling-tales-1.206512| title=DIFF receals line-up for free film screenings| date=December 8, 2014| publisher=Digital Production| access-date=June 4, 2015}}

Al Mheiri wrote the book, Kingdom of Peacocks – Mists of Time, the first of a trilogy, which is about the Portuguese invasion of an imaginary kingdom in the Persian Gulf in the early 1500s as an allegory to today's extremist groups.