Spring film projects announced

n n n The National staff with agency n n n n n n n nThe recipients of the first cycle of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival's SANAD Fund for 2012 were announced at this week's Cannes Film Festival. Out of 112 applications, 16 projects have been chosen to ...

Jon Fitzgerald, co-founder and former executive director of the Slamdance, AFI Fest, Santa Barbara and Abu Dhabi film festivals, was named executive director of the 17th Hollywood Film Festival. "Jon's experience in the online, film festival and ...

more articles from Google Plus Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email A Friend Save as PDF Add to Reading List Grand Millennium Hotel (GMH), a member of the Millennium and Copthorne Hotels Group Worldwide, will host the first edition of Abu Dhabi ...

Sheikh Hamdan received during the meeting the awards won by the RCA in international film festivals in New York and Cannes for the its documentariesFootprints in the Snow and Tears for Rain. Sheikh Hamdan said the RCA had made a tremendous ...

Outside of the major film festivals, documentaries tend to get minimal screen time in the UAE. So fans of the genre will be cheered to hear that the British Council will be hosting free screenings of a series of factual movies in the capital, most ...

With every regional film festival comes another acronym to remember. Weve got DIFF (Dubai), ADFF (Abu Dhabi) and DTFF (Doha). But since 2009, arguably the biggest mouthful of the bunch has been from the UAE's Zayed University with ZUMEFF. The Zayed ...

The Centre's participation in the event was under directives by H.H. Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President's Representative and the President of the Centre who is interested in supporting and sponsoring creative individuals from the UAE ...

A film that had its international premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Promised Land will open this year's Abu Dhabi International Environmental Film Festival (ADIEFF). The drama from the director Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon ...

Dubai, U.A.E. MEMonarca April 2013 - The Gulf Film Festival (GFF), the home of bold, experimental, and contemporary cinema from the Arabian peninsula, held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman ...