In its first announcement following cancellation of its inaugural edition due to coronavirus, Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival has recruited a high-profile jury that will award tw…
In its first announcement following cancellation of its inaugural edition due to coronavirus, Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival has recruited a high-profile jury that will award two production grants forThe jurors who will pick winners among 12 projects taking part in the inaugural Red Sea Lodge Residency are: Egyptian auteur; France-based producer Nadia Turincev ; and German producer Meinholf Zurhorst, who is a commissioner for the German side of European specialty broadcaster...
The Red Sea Lodge program to nurture new voices in Arab cinema – which is organized in tandem with Italy’s TorinoFilmLab – has selected 12 emerging Arab filmmakers, six of whom are from Saudi Arabia, and paired each one with an experienced mentor who will shepherd the development of each project.12 of the selected projects will take part in online meetings, starting on Oct.
The final phase of the Red Sea Lodge and the awarding of the production grants was due to take place at fest’s inaugural cancelled edition in March. Since then, the festival’s president Mahmoud Sabbagh – who is the director of daring Saudi social comedies “Barakah Meets Barakah” and “Amra and the Second Marriage” – resigned and returned to his work as a filmmaker.
No reason was given for the resignation of Sabbagh, who has not been replaced. What’s clear is the Red Sea Festival and its related activities are going forward.
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