Bassem ElQassabi is an Egyptian independent Filmmaker. He was born in 1983 in Cairo. He spent part of his youth in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Ever since he was a child he was fascinated by films and cinema & its ability to create a parallel reality.

Living in Saudi, a country with no cinema theaters, he started his career working in the creative field in the hope this will get him closer to filmmaking one day. He worked in advertising and publishing, for almost a decade where he grew to become a production manager. Bassem kept his passion alive and was waiting for the right moment. Bassem had the chance in  (2014) to work as a training assistant director for “The 48-hours Film Project” which was an intensive two-day film competition. In 2015 he became a creative assistant producer. This was his turning point and the moment of no return and decided to pursue his career in filmmaking and move to Cairo.

He received further experience by attending “The Zat Studio's Directing and Script-Writing workshops” alongside the director “Nadine Labky”. Afterward, he continued his career as an assistant director for more than six short films. By the end of 2016, Bassem had a chance to work as a producer in a documentary feature film "In the street". In 2017 he worked as an assistant Egyptian producer for Robert Bosch Stiftung’s award-winning short film script "The Trap" which was selected & nominated for Cannes Critics Week in 2019.