Even though the famous Abu Dhabi International Film Festival had become a key industry event in the Arabian Peninsula, developing a strong relationship with Hollywood, this month the Emirate’s Media Zone Authority announced it would close. For Arab film-makers and others working in the industry, the reasons for this decision remain opaque. The Media Zone …
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For the holy month ICFLIX, the platform for legal streaming and video on demand in the Middle East and North Africa, is launching a series inspired by the popular Arab stories A Thousand and One Nights, “Alf Leila we Leila”. The series will be available throughout the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). Every …
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“Electro Chaabi” Screening organised by the CMCA in partnership with the Département Société de la Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar and the Centre Régional d’Information Jeunesse de Marseille On Tuesday June 16th at 5:30 pm there will be a screening of Hind Meddeb’s documentary “Electro Chaabi”, winner of the Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures Award …
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After the announcement by Sarim Fassi Fihri, head of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain, that in 2014 there had been record investment in film and television productions shot in Morocco, “The Guardian” newspaper claimed that Morocco is ranked among the Top Ten film locations in the world, just behind Vancouver (Canada) and ahead of New Zealand. …
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On the night of April 8th to 9th the French channel TV5 Monde was hacked by a group calling themselves Cybercaliphate. For Hélène Zemmour, the channel’s digital director, it was a “historic attack, something completely new”. The damage was considerable: in a very short time employees’ work-place mailboxes were cut, social networks and the web-site …
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The Hubert Bals Fund (Rotterdam International Film Festival) has extended its support offering with the creation of a new international co-production fund called HBF + Europe. This new fund will support European producers coming in as minority co-producers on feature films being made by young directors from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and …
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The European 24-hour news channel, Euronews, created in 1993 by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), should see its capital increase with the arrival of a private shareholder. On February 24th the decision was approved by the Supervisory Board. Exclusive negotiations about an injection of capital from one of Naguib Sawiris’ companies had been entrusted to …
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