Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival unveiled the selection for its 4th edition on Monday as well as its new headquarters in the historic center of its home city of Jeddah.
The festival, running from December 5 to 14, will open with Egyptian director Karim Shenawy’s feel-good drama The Tale Of Daye’s Family (aka Light), then showcase some 120 features and shorts from 81 territories. Read about the line-up in detail here.
The festival’s Managing Director Shivani Pandya, and Jomana Al Rashid, Chairwoman of the event’s parent body, the Red Sea Film Foundation, talked to Deadline about the upcoming edition as it final elements come together.
Deadline: Last year, the festival came together against the backdrop of the Hollywood Actors’ strike and early days of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which made it harder to secure films and talent. How has it been this year?
Pandya: We haven...
The festival, running from December 5 to 14, will open with Egyptian director Karim Shenawy’s feel-good drama The Tale Of Daye’s Family (aka Light), then showcase some 120 features and shorts from 81 territories. Read about the line-up in detail here.
The festival’s Managing Director Shivani Pandya, and Jomana Al Rashid, Chairwoman of the event’s parent body, the Red Sea Film Foundation, talked to Deadline about the upcoming edition as it final elements come together.
Deadline: Last year, the festival came together against the backdrop of the Hollywood Actors’ strike and early days of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which made it harder to secure films and talent. How has it been this year?
Pandya: We haven...
- 11/11/2024
- por Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Shoot the Book adaption market — a staple at the Marché du Film since 2014 and a rising player on the global film scene — continues to evolve.
As the program — a joint initiative between publishing trade group Scelf (Société Civile des Editeurs de Langue Française) and the publicly funded Institut Français — continues to host curated pitch sessions at markets in Cannes, Shanghai and Los Angeles, it will also look to expand its B2B rendezvous component that was introduced last year.
“Our ambition is very simple,” says Scelf director Nathalie Piaskowski. “We want to entrench and entwine the two events. We want to make the rendezvous a fixture — and export it to other markets and festivals.”
And so on June 25, Shoot the Book will kick off this year’s edition with a morning pitch session — spotlighting 10 literary properties selected by an industry jury — and return in the afternoon for a three-hour...
As the program — a joint initiative between publishing trade group Scelf (Société Civile des Editeurs de Langue Française) and the publicly funded Institut Français — continues to host curated pitch sessions at markets in Cannes, Shanghai and Los Angeles, it will also look to expand its B2B rendezvous component that was introduced last year.
“Our ambition is very simple,” says Scelf director Nathalie Piaskowski. “We want to entrench and entwine the two events. We want to make the rendezvous a fixture — and export it to other markets and festivals.”
And so on June 25, Shoot the Book will kick off this year’s edition with a morning pitch session — spotlighting 10 literary properties selected by an industry jury — and return in the afternoon for a three-hour...
- 22/06/2020
- por Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Film Independent announced today the six screenwriters selected for its 21st annual Screenwriting Lab. Mikki Crisostomo, Billy Luther, Haitham Dabbour, Anya Meksin, Sontenish Myers and Andrew Huang will all received story and career development from the non-profit organization’s annual program for their first fiction screenplays. Notes Find in a press release, “One hundred percent of this year’s participants are from communities underrepresented in film and half the participants are women. This year’s projects, selected from 550 submissions, explore a range of compelling fictional topics from ancient magic to widespread pandemics and tiger spirits.” More from the press release: “Being a […]...
- 14/05/2019
- por Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Film Independent announced today the six screenwriters selected for its 21st annual Screenwriting Lab. Mikki Crisostomo, Billy Luther, Haitham Dabbour, Anya Meksin, Sontenish Myers and Andrew Huang will all received story and career development from the non-profit organization’s annual program for their first fiction screenplays. Notes Find in a press release, “One hundred percent of this year’s participants are from communities underrepresented in film and half the participants are women. This year’s projects, selected from 550 submissions, explore a range of compelling fictional topics from ancient magic to widespread pandemics and tiger spirits.” More from the press release: “Being a […]...
- 14/05/2019
- por Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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