Sam Mounier

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Sam Mounier (born August 5, 1992) is an American actor and writer. He is known for co-writing Nadine Labaki's Lebanese film Where Do We Go Now?   and starring as "La Mosca" in the Sicilian film Respiro and "David" in the Egyptian film Messages from the Sea.

Career
In 1998, Mounier took his first acting role in a short film by Sofia Coppola called Lick the Star. At the time, Mounier's family was living in Egypt. Coppola urged Mounier's father to let Mounier pursue a career as an actor in the United States, but his father was not too keen to the idea. Four years later, Sicilian director Emanuele Crialese, who had been a long time family friend, became infatuated by the young Mounier and cast him as "La Mosca" (literally "The Fly" in Italian) in his award-winning film Respiro. This projected Mounier onto the international screen and earned him roles in European projects, which included the role of Émile on the French TV mini-series, "Elles et moi". In 2010, Mounier took on the role of "David" in Daoud Abdel Sayed's Egyptian drama, "Messages from the Sea". The film was selected as the Egyptian entry to the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. . However, while on the set for Messages from the Sea, Mounier was introduced to Nadine Labaki who was quickly impressed by Mounier's writing abilities and asked him to join her and two others in composing the screenplay for Where Do We Go Now?. The film was part of the official selection at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard parallel competition. The film was released on September 14, 2011 in France and September 22, 2011 in Lebanon, Egypt, and Italy. The film was a success and has won numerous awards across a multitude of film festivals.