The Arab Cinema Center is launching the Critics Awards to promote and support Arab cinema internationally. The winners will be for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Actor.
The 26 member jury includes prominent Arab and foreign critics from 15 countries from around the world. Egyptian film critic Ahmed Shawky is serving as manager of the Critics Awards.
Film analyst Alaa Karkouti, CEO of Mad Solutions, the company in charge of organizing the Arab Cinema Center’s events and also the first Pan Arab independent distributor and PR company of Arabic content to and from the Arab world, said: “The Critics Awards marks a first-time initiative that encompasses film critics from all over the world dedicated to Arab films within the strategy of Arab Cinema Center to add initiatives and events to every large-scale international film festival around the world.”
He added: “This is the first new addition...
The 26 member jury includes prominent Arab and foreign critics from 15 countries from around the world. Egyptian film critic Ahmed Shawky is serving as manager of the Critics Awards.
Film analyst Alaa Karkouti, CEO of Mad Solutions, the company in charge of organizing the Arab Cinema Center’s events and also the first Pan Arab independent distributor and PR company of Arabic content to and from the Arab world, said: “The Critics Awards marks a first-time initiative that encompasses film critics from all over the world dedicated to Arab films within the strategy of Arab Cinema Center to add initiatives and events to every large-scale international film festival around the world.”
He added: “This is the first new addition...
- 4/16/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Panel discussed the challenges of making different kinds of films in Palestine.
Film-makers discussed the extreme challenges of making movies in Palestine cinema at Iffr’s Picture Palestine programme - part of the overarching Perspectives section.
Jumana Manna’s music documentary A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (pictured), Ihab Jadallah’s shorts Flower Seller and The Shooter and Reem Shilleh’s archive collective Perpetual Recurrences were showcased at the event.
Film programmer Nat Muller told Screen the work of Palestinian film-makers is more important than ever with today’s complex political realities, and was pleased that there are more women and men, living both in and out of Palestine, making films within the region.
Shilleh, Manna and Jadallah highlighted in a panel, however, that there is also a need to move on from the region’s ongoing upheaval.
“Because of this unwillingness to fix certain stereotypes in Palestinian cinema, there seems to be this regression in film-making...
Film-makers discussed the extreme challenges of making movies in Palestine cinema at Iffr’s Picture Palestine programme - part of the overarching Perspectives section.
Jumana Manna’s music documentary A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (pictured), Ihab Jadallah’s shorts Flower Seller and The Shooter and Reem Shilleh’s archive collective Perpetual Recurrences were showcased at the event.
Film programmer Nat Muller told Screen the work of Palestinian film-makers is more important than ever with today’s complex political realities, and was pleased that there are more women and men, living both in and out of Palestine, making films within the region.
Shilleh, Manna and Jadallah highlighted in a panel, however, that there is also a need to move on from the region’s ongoing upheaval.
“Because of this unwillingness to fix certain stereotypes in Palestinian cinema, there seems to be this regression in film-making...
- 2/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Wroclaw moves 2017 dates to accommodate World Games; Polish festival reveals 2016 New Horizons winners.
The film festivals in Wroclaw and Locarno are set for a collision course as both festivals will be held concurrently for the first time next year.
A Locarno spokesperson confirmed to Screen that the Swiss festival’s 70th edition will be held from Wednesday 2 to Saturday 12 August, while New Horizons will kick off its 17th outing a day later, from Thursday 3 August, according to the New Horizons press department.
New Horizons’ organisers were obliged to change its dates from the traditional slot in the last two weeks in July as the Polish city will be hosting the 10th edition of sports event the World Games.
Speaking exclusively to Screen, New Horizons festival president Roman Gutek explained that the decision to move to August for 2017 had been made two years ago in order to avoid a strain on resources in the city.
¨We have consulted...
The film festivals in Wroclaw and Locarno are set for a collision course as both festivals will be held concurrently for the first time next year.
A Locarno spokesperson confirmed to Screen that the Swiss festival’s 70th edition will be held from Wednesday 2 to Saturday 12 August, while New Horizons will kick off its 17th outing a day later, from Thursday 3 August, according to the New Horizons press department.
New Horizons’ organisers were obliged to change its dates from the traditional slot in the last two weeks in July as the Polish city will be hosting the 10th edition of sports event the World Games.
Speaking exclusively to Screen, New Horizons festival president Roman Gutek explained that the decision to move to August for 2017 had been made two years ago in order to avoid a strain on resources in the city.
¨We have consulted...
- 8/1/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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