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Moroccan cinema saw a dramatic surge in foreign investments, with 1.14 billion dirhams flowing into Moroccan film productions. Despite the success of local cinema and the national film scene, Hollywood dominated the market share, as opposed to French , Indian , and Egyptian films which accounted for less than 11% of the market by year's end.
Arab Film Distribution presents films about the Arab world. The Seattle-based company distributes its films in North America, and was founded in 1990 by the Seattle Arab & Iranian Film Festival, which was in turn created for the 1990 Goodwill Games. In 2005, the company launched a theatrical subsidiary, Typecast Entertainment. [1] [2]
Years later, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation was founded in 1989 to help cultivate a cinema culture of Arab films in an attempt to establish the film industry in Jordan. [43] Moreover, in 2003 the Royal Film Commission was established that was also an attempt to encourage the production of Jordanian films. [42]
But we don’t want it to be one Saudi film per year, we want it to be at least 10 films per year. We need to look at the infrastructure and the entire value chain being built around the industry.
Gulf Film is the distribution rights owner of more than 150 titles – that's almost half of the films distributed in the region. Gulf Film is by far the largest film distributor in the Middle East. [1] Gulf Film took a step forward in the year 2000 and expanded its portfolio by creating Grand Cinemas.
As conflicts escalate in the Middle East and North Africa, from Palestine to Yemen and Sudan, filmmakers have seen an increase in solidarity within the local creative community to find ways to ...
Arab cinema did not flourish before the national independence of each of them, and even after, the films production of Arab cinema was restricted to short-length films. [46] However, there were exceptions for some of them. For example, Egypt scored the highest number in producing films and produced more than 2,500 feature films. [46]
The Marrakech Film Festival’s industry-focused Atlas Workshops will complement its existing support for development and production with the Atlas Distribution Award – a brand-new initiative ...