Ali F. Mostafa

Ali Faisal Mostafa Bin Abdullatif is a British-Emirati filmmaker, director and producer who is credited as the director of the first Emirati feature-film City of Life. He is a graduate of London Film School. According to Mostafa, the inspiration for producing City of Life came because “I was tired of people comparing Dubai to a Disneyland. Most of them take one look at the glitzy buildings and assume it’s an artificial place. My film has none of that. It has real people with real problems.