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We were very sad to hear of the recent death of Mamoun Hassan.
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Mamoun played a very significant role in the development of independent cinema in the UK and without his support Bill Douglas, and many other filmmakers, would not have had the opportunity to get their vision to an audience.
Born in Saudi Arabia, Mamoun came to London as a boy and later worked as an editor and a documentary maker in the 1960s.
On taking over as Head of the BFI Production Board he came across Bill Douglas's script for My Childhood. After many years of having his work rejected, Bill, who had just graduated in his mid 30s from the London Film School, was delighted to receive a letter from Mamoun at the BFI in 1971 saying that funding had been agreed and with the encouraging message 'Come and talk about it.
You'll make an important film. I know it'. Mamoun oversaw the often fraught and challenging productions of My Childhood and My Ain Folk, always retaining his support for Bill's unique vision, befor