For 4 years she was running a post-production company in Cairo, where she edited a multitude of documentaries as well as independent films and video art projects. In 2011, she pursued a masters in Aural and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College in London and with multiple interests in editing, analog filmmaking, grading and sound recording/design, Louly has enjoyed being a freelancer ever since. Colour grading has been one of her passions and it has been her wish to explore its possibilities. UP.GRADE was the perfect opportunity for that. It not only provided her with a solid foundation of colour grading knowledge and techniques but was also a fascinating archeological excavation of a fairly recent history, that of the digital image; a history still in the making.