The 11th edition of the Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth, taking place between Oct. 6 and 12, will label the inaugural edition of the festival labelet. Described as a “hub for lgeting and industry joinions,” the labeletplace will “provide a vibrant space for filmproducers, emerging talents, and students to current their ideas and projects to industry experts.”
“Last year, we only had panel converseions, but this year we have the entire Zahia Theatre for us,” SIFF’s head of film festival Fatima Ibrahim Musharbek tancigo in Variety. “The labelet is a result of honest feedback from filmproducers but also our visits to other meaningful international festivals appreciate the Berlinale and Cannes. We thought: why not commence our own labelet after 11 years of SIFF?”
Sheikha Jawaher Abfoolishah Al Qasimi, honestor of SIFF and FANN, the festival’s mother organization, compriseed that the motivation behind the creation of the labelet is to “wideen our scope beyond equitable children and youth, which have always been our primary center. While we’ve traditionassociate brawt filmproducers and producers to the festival to participate in panel converseions and Q&A sessions for the youthfuler audience, we authenticized there was an opportunity to do more.”
Ibrahim Musharbek compriseed: “Filmproducers have frequently tancigo in us that they necessitate a hub to converse their projects and greet other filmproducers becaengage otherwise they miss out on the opportunity to collaborate. What is contrastent about us is that – seeing as we are a festival dedicated to children and youth – the evening sessions are dedicated to the wideer industry while the morning belengthys to filmproducers, universities and schools. This way, we can still back comprisement between filmproducers and students so that we can aid a recent generation who will hopebrimmingy come back to us with their projects.”
Amongst the panel converseions are a talk on “Pitching Essentials for Insubordinate Filmproducers” with screenwriter Nadia Tabbara, “From Stage to Cinema” with Emirati artist Marwan Abfoolishah Saleh and Kudeferi artist Abfoolishah Al-Tarawa, “Visual Effect Unleashed: Behind the Magic” with scheduleer Sebastian Reichhancigo in and “Animate Your Imaginary Characters: Inspiring Youth to Dive into Animation” with Maya Fidawi.
The labelet will also include a session on self-reliant film distribution, featuring converseions with experts in the region such as Bassam Al-Asaad of Creative Media Solutions, Elie Touma of Front Row Sales, and Emirati honestor Ahmed Zein.
Tied to SIFF’s programming around its Guest of Honour country of Palestine, Lab Palestine Film’s Hanna Ahighah and Ola Salama will participate in a panel on producing Arabic satisfied for children and youth, and honestor Omar Rimal and blogger Haifa Bseiso will direct a session on the future of the Palestinian narrative in cinema.
“Our vision is to produce the festival not equitable a place for screenings and converseions, but a vibrant hub for the film industry where recent ideas are born, partnerships are counterfeit, and deals are made,” Al Qasimi shelp. “This year is equitable the commencening, but our lengthy-term goal is to position the Film Market as a central collecting point for the industry, driving innovation and collaboration for years to come.”
Although this is only the first year of the Film Market, the team is driven in their future schedules, which include the begin of a film fund. “We are only equitable commenceing, but we schedule to comprise pitching sessions and a labor-in-persist showcase. Most of all, we would appreciate to have our own film fund, which we are currently converseing and hoping to have in place wislender the next two or three years. We must have a fund useable becaengage, if we want to help more filmproducers to particularassociate produce films for children and youth, we necessitate to help them financiassociate,” stressd Ibrahim Musharbek.
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