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  • Freej
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    Image Nation unveils third Emirati picture

    2012-12-14T06:22:00Z

    Image Nation Abu Dhabi has signed Emirati director Mohammed Saeed Harib for its third local feature film - a family comedy about a disgraced football player who redeems himself as a coach for a failing team at an Abu Dhabi high school.

  • Bassam Jarbawi
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    AFAC shows support for dozen

    2012-12-14T06:16:00Z

    The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) unveiled the 12 film projects to receive support in its latest round of funding at the close of the Dubai Film market yesterday.

  • Mohamed Layadi
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    Distributors network MEDIS sets out objectives

    2012-12-13T10:29:00Z

    Recently launched Middle East distributors network MEDIS set its first objectives at an inaugural general assembly in Dubai on Monday (Dec 10).

  • Michael Apted
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    Michael Apted plots Eight Months

    2012-12-13T10:14:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: UK director Michael Apted is set to direct an adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novel Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, which he plans to shoot in the Middle East.

  • Alessandra Priante
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    Eurimages mulls border extension

    2012-12-13T00:53:00Z

    Pan-European production fund Eurimages is mulling how it can extend cooperation beyond the borders of its 36 member states, executive director Roberto Olla revealed at a Film Forum panel on the body on Wednesday.

  • Hala Lotfy
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    Egyptian film rebels form breakaway union

    2012-12-13T00:21:00Z

    Independent film movement takes root in Cairo challenging film and TV industry’s old guard. 

  • CINELAN
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    CINELAN focuses on award finalists

    2012-12-13T00:02:00Z

    New York-based short film programme CINELAN has announced the 20 finalists in its $200,000 Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition which include films about a low-cost solution to landmine clearance and a model Indian village.

  • Haider Rashid
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    Iraqi-Kuwaiti filmmakers join forces in Babylon

    2012-12-12T06:43:00Z

    Iraqi-Italian Haider Rashid and Kuwaiti Abdullah Boushahri recently collaborated on It’s About To Rain (Sta Per Piovere).

  • Under The Bombs
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    Starfield unites Under the Bombs team in London

    2012-12-12T06:39:00Z

    Quartet behind 2007 road move shot against backdrop of 2006 Lebanese War reunites for comedy, provisionally entitled London Haram.

  • Ali F. Mostafa
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    DCAA launches Emirati filmmaker project

    2012-12-12T06:34:00Z

    The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (DCAA) has commissioned three Emirati filmmakers - Ali F. Mostafa, Nayla Al Khaja and Khalid Ali - to make short films for a new cultural initiative, Soul Of Dubai.

  • Maysoon Pachachi
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    Pachachi wins IWC Schaffhausen filmmaker award

    2012-12-11T06:39:00Z

    Maysoon Pachachi was presented with the $100,000 IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Award for her project Nothing Doing In Baghdad at a glittering ceremony at the Dubai International Film Festival last night.

  • Amr Waked
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    Egypt’s Zad goes into exile with Mact Productions

    2012-12-11T05:51:00Z

    Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication is embarking on its first international co-production, teaming with Paris-based Mact Productions on The Exile, a romantic and political drama set against the backdrop of Luxor in the 1980s.

  • Wael Omar
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    Wael Omar tackles Egypt's football Ultras

    2012-12-11T03:37:00Z

    The footballing massacre that claimed the lives of 74 young men and injured a thousand more in the Port Said soccer stadium this February is the subject of a new documentary feature to be directed by award-winning Egyptian filmmaker Wael Omar.

  • Rashid Masharawi
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    Masharawi wraps West Bank-set Palestine Stereo

    2012-12-10T23:00:00Z

    Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi has wrapped his latest feature Palestine Stereo and is looking for post-production finance, according to Tunisian producer Habib Attia of Cinetelefilms.

  • the_attack_2
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    The Attack, A Hijacking among Marrakech winners

    2012-12-10T11:35:00Z

    Ziad Doueiri’s The Attack wins top prize, A Hijacking shares Jury Prize and scoops Best Actor for Soren Malling.

  • News

    Euromed spearheads launch of MENA distributors network

    2012-12-10T03:00:00Z

    A consortium of around 20 distributors from across the Middle East has launched a new regional network, provisionally called MEDIS.

  • Hamida Aman
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    First Afghan web TV channel launches

    Kabul and Dubai-based producer Hamida Aman has launched Afghanistan’s first web TV channel Globox.tv, tapping into the country’s burgeoning social media culture.

  • zabana_01
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    Wide Management sells Zabana! to Cinecitta Luce

    2012-12-09T03:00:00Z

    Cinecittà Luce has acquired Italian rights to Algerian Saïd Ould-Khelifa’s Zabana!, a contender in Dubai’s Muhr Arab feature competition, from French sales company Wide Management.

  • Michael_Douglas
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    Front Row hunts down Bloodsport, Reykjavik

    2012-12-09T03:00:00Z

    Front Row Entertainment, the Dubai-based distributor that is among the world’s most prolific pre-buyers of independent films, has added several more titles to its brimming release slate.

  • Freida Pinto
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    Pinto, Apted, Barreto among Dubai film festival jurors

    2012-12-05T11:59:00Z

    The Dubai International Film Festival has announced the juries for its Muhr competition strands, which include actress Freida Pinto, Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto and UK director Michael Apted.