First Contact (1983 film)
"First Contact" is the first documentary in what later became known as "The Highland Trilogy". The other two films are "Joe Leahy's Neighbours" (1989) and "Black Harvest" (1992). These three films, between them, have won some thirty major awards, included each film winning both the Grand Prix at the Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris and AFI Award for Best Documentary.
Ateyyat El Abnoudy
While Abnoudy was nearing her graduation date she was also in the process of creating her first documentary "Horse of Mud". Abnoudy stated that she wanted to have what she referred to as a style of poetic realism. The ways in which she captured the images of her actresses was a way she states would show that the best. According to Van de Peer, the "Horse of Mud" wasn’t only Abnoudy’s first documentary, but it was also Egypt’s first documentary by a woman.