Rakan Mayasi was born in Germany on July 7th 1985. He earned his B.A. in Communication Arts - double emphasis in Radio/TV/Film and Theatre with a Minor in Psychology from the Lebanese American University in 2007. Ever since, he has written and directed a series of 14 short documentaries (26 minutes) for TV (Firehorse Films, Lebanon) and feature documentary in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon for local TV. “The idea of making films is a need, synonymous with that of thirst or hunger.”