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Aroma Studios press kit.
Everything media, festivals and partners need to cover Aroma Studios — official boilerplate, fast facts, founder bio, logos, artwork and press coverage. For interviews, screeners and additional materials, write to info@aromastudios.com.
Boilerplate
Aroma Studios is one of the most recognized production companies in the Middle East, based between Cairo, Dubai and Riyadh. The company produces original films and series — more than 50 successful, award-winning regional titles — and provides full production services to international features, series and commercials shooting in Egypt, with post-production and VFX through AO3 Studios. Recent work includes serving as the on-the-ground production partner and Middle East distributor of TNT’s miniseries High Value Target, starring Joel Kinnaman.
Fast facts
Based in
Cairo · Dubai · Riyadh — production services across Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Catalog
50+ successful regional titles — award-winning drama, film and series.
International showcase
High Value Target (TNT, Joel Kinnaman) — shot entirely in Egypt: 75 days, military hardware, a White House set, 1,000+ VFX shots.
Regional reach
Five consecutive years filming in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; multiple productions delivered across the UAE.
Distribution
MENA rights closed directly by Aroma — including the exclusive Watch It deal for High Value Target.
What’s next
Working with the Egyptian government and Film Commission on the country’s first production rebate, to be announced soon.
“I built Aroma Studios on a simple belief: Egypt is one of the greatest places on earth to make film and television — five thousand years of locations within thirty minutes of Cairo, and crews whose craft matches any market I’ve worked in. Today we operate between Cairo, Dubai and Riyadh, producing our own slate and putting that same machine — permits, locations, crews, stages, logistics — at the service of international productions. When a producer lands in Egypt with us, they get one accountable partner who treats their picture like our own. That’s the standard, on every shoot.”
Tamer Mortada — Founder, Aroma Studios
About the founder
Tamer Mortada — founder of Aroma Studios and one of the region's most prominent producers — is a communication engineer by education, and it shows in everything he builds: a career at the meeting point of art, technology and science, where an engineer's precision serves a filmmaker's instinct. That combination has defined Aroma since day one.
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He founded Aroma in 2001 as a post-production house — visual effects, editorial, color grading and audiovisual identity design for cinema, television and thousands of commercials — work that earned more than 30 international awards and placed the company behind technical credits such as The International Player (2009) and Winter of Discontent, which screened at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2014 he founded Aroma Studios and crossed from services into full production. The Hunter (2014, Youssef El Sherif) opened a run of hit drama — Black Envelope and Devil's Game (2015), The Exit (2016), Forced Choice (2017), Fait Accompli (2018) — while the house kept delivering VFX and editorial for landmarks like Cain and The Secret Men's Club (2019).
By 2021 he stood among the region's leading producers, expanding Aroma with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh. The successes followed: the widely watched Ela Ana anthology, Return to Love (2022, Khaled El Nabawy), The Original (2023, Riham Abdel Ghafour), A Husband's Diary, The Morgue and With Evidence (2023, Hanan Motawie), The M Empire (2024, Khaled El Nabawy) and the epic A Thousand and One Nights: Gawdar (2024, Yasser Galal) — followed in 2025–2026 by White Page, Cocoon, The Art of War, The Second Half and Roses & Jasmines.
Then the step that took the journey global: through Aroma Studios, Tamer Mortada serves as the Egyptian executive producer of TNT's High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam — shot largely on Egyptian soil, and proof that Egyptian talent can carry an international production at the highest professional standard.
Founder filmography — Tamer Mortada
More than 360 credits across production, visual effects, color and post since 2001 — from supervising the VFX of landmark Egyptian cinema to producing Aroma's 50+ title catalog and TNT's High Value Target. Full record on IMDb. And thousands of TV commercials since Aroma was founded.
🎬 Producer (50)
✨ VFX Supervisor — earlier career (50)
🎨 Colorist — earlier career (14)
🎞️ Post-Production (252)
The post-production legacy
Before building its production catalog, Aroma Studios was Egypt's leading post-production and VFX house — the teams behind the visual effects and color of landmark titles including The Blue Elephant, Kira & El Gin, Diamond Dust, Yomeddine (Cannes competition), Sheikh Jackson (Egypt's Oscar submission), Hepta and Grand Hotel. That division now operates as AO3 Studios — the same award-winning artists behind our editorial, color, VFX and sound today.
Logos, photos & artwork
Official assets for editorial use. Please do not alter, recolor or distort the logo.
Aroma Studios logo (PNG) Founder photo — Tamer Mortada (JPG) Founder photo — Tamer Mortada (JPG) (2)
Key art Download all key art (ZIP)
High Value Target — made in Egypt.
Joel Kinnaman · 75 shooting days around Cairo · military hardware · a White House set build · 1,000+ VFX shots · exclusive MENA deal with Watch It.
Sugar — with MBC StudiosA flagship feature produced in collaboration with MBC Studios — studio-level partnership with the region's biggest broadcaster, from set to screen.View title →A Thousand and One Nights: Gawdar — the epicAn epic fantasy saga drawn from the One Thousand and One Nights — large-scale period sets, world-building VFX and hundreds of extras, delivered across two full seasons.View title →The Half — a two-season hitA flagship contemporary drama delivered across two back-to-back seasons — The Half and The Second Half — produced end-to-end by Aroma.View title →Roses & JasminesAroma's latest flagship drama — a sweeping family saga heading the 2026 slate.View title →Return to Love — with Khaled El NabawyA star-led romantic drama that became one of the most-watched series of its season (2022).View title →The M Empire — with Khaled El NabawyA prestige thriller led by Khaled El Nabawy — among Aroma's standout productions of 2024.View title →White Page — the 2025 hitA character-driven drama that became one of the most talked-about and highest-rated series of 2025 — produced end-to-end by Aroma.View title →Investigation (El Tahkik)A gripping crime procedural delivered across 12 episodes — among Aroma's highest-rated series.View title →In the press
- The Hollywood Reporter — High Value Target official trailer
- Variety — Trailer and premiere coverage
- Deadline — International sales: Crave, NRK, SVT, YLE, DR
- UPI — Premiere set on TNT
Press contact
Interviews, screeners, stills and additional materials: info@aromastudios.com