# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bassam-al-thawadi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:14:32.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bassam-al-thawadi"
name: "Bassam Al-Thawadi"
slug: "bassam-al-thawadi"
description: "Bassam Mohammed Al-Thawadi is a veteran Bahraini filmmaker and film director, known for producing Bahrain's first feature film, The Barrier, in 1990. Regarded as a regional pioneer in film-making, he is a founding member of the GCC Cinema Society and is also the founder and director-in-general of first Arab Cinema Festival in Bahrain. He had directed numerous short films and also commercials, educational & cultural programmes during his tenure in the Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation as well as performing in plays."
tagline: "Filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bassam_Al-Thawadi%2C_Bahrain_TV_-_Sep_21%2C_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1960-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.33
  momentum:             0.5617977528089887
  historical:           7.003384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1504595/"
    handle:    "nm1504595"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassam_Al-Thawadi"
    title: "Bassam Al-Thawadi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بسام الذوادي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%89"
    title: "بسام الذوادى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2-%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BF"
    title: "বাসাম আল-থাওয়াদি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassam_Al-Thawadi"
    title: "Bassam Al-Thawadi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassam_Al-Thawadi"
    title: "Bassam Al-Thawadi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "بسام الذوادی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4868006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1486814"
    title: "Bassam Al-Thawadi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump