Dubai is to host an international film festival next March. The seven-day event will bring together films and film personalities from around the world. The promoters have budgeted around $5 million to develop the festival.
Dubai is to host an international film festival next March. The seven-day event will bring together films and film personalities from around the world. The promoters have budgeted around $5 million to develop the festival.
Dubai is to host an international film festival next March. The seven-day event will bring together films and film personalities from around the world. The promoters have budgeted around $5 million to develop the festival.
film festival next year Films for the seven-day event will be chosen by invitation ~BY Manoj Nair Dubai Dubai is to host an international film festival next March, with plans to develop it into an annu al event"J;>ringing together films and film personalities from around the world. The promoters have budgeted around $5 million initially to evelop the Dubai International .Im Festival (DIIF) concept. Promotion of the festival to an I international audience will start immediately, according to Abdulhamid Juma, chid execu tive of Dubai Media City. : Dubai, thus, becomes the sec 'ond Middle East city after Cairo to have a film festival. The first DIIF will extend over ,seven days, with films chosen I from the main movie producing 'markets of the Americas, the Subcontinent, Europe, the Far East and the Middle East. I "The films that will be chosen are to be by invitation alone, and the rules of the UAE will be adhered to in deciding where the Abdulhamid Juma (left) and Mahmud Ahmed at a press conference in the Dubai Media City. - GN pic- ~. , films are from and what the con ture by Sanjoy Ghosh :. tent will be," added ]uma. "This will also apply to the films that are cinemas throughout the city. competitive awards, but there are will have a more equitable policy , chosen for the festival." "UAE is emerging as a global plans to introduce it from the sec in selection of films to be i Premier Event Management media hub and this film festival ond year onwards. However, a screened." and Entertainment (PEME) - a will enhance that status and put leading film personality will In recent years, many films have , subsidiary of Dakota-Delta Corp. us on the international film map," receive a lifetime achievement been shot at various locales in I - has been appointed to organise said Juma. honour. Dubai, particularly by filmmakers DIIF "We expect to cany this initia Mahmud Ahmed, chief execu from the Subcontinent. The city's Sponsors will shortly be invited tive forward with the strong sup tive officer of PEME, said: "We prospects in post production J come on board, with packages port of both government organi see that many ofthe other film fes facilIties are also being actively currently being drawn. The festival sations and the private sector." tivals are limited to screening of pursued with the emergence of films will be screened at the many In the first year, there will be no U.S. and European films. DIIF DMC.
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