Film-makers Jessica Habie and Deema Dabis have launched the Fajr Falestine Film Fund to support production of experimental films from the Middle East with particular emphasis on Palestinian films.
Us-based non-profit The Eyes Infinite Foundation will run the fund, which aims to create a film collective in which five selected film-makers will receive financial support.
The five inaugural film-makers selected by the Film Fund’s ‘Pillars’, a panel of international artists and scholars, are: Jessica Habie, Deema Dabis, Rashid Abdelhamid and a pair of film-makers calling themselves Tarzan and Arab.
The judges include Amreeka director Cherien Dabis, writer-actress Najla Said, film scholar Robert Keser, Arab Film Festival programmer Laurence Mazouni, film-maker Natalie Handalm, Palestinian artist Sharif Waked and film-maker Iman Aoun.
The goal is to release five projects every two years, growing the funding pool every year over a 10-year period until the collective is able to develop, produce and distribute five feature projects every funding cycle.
The...
Us-based non-profit The Eyes Infinite Foundation will run the fund, which aims to create a film collective in which five selected film-makers will receive financial support.
The five inaugural film-makers selected by the Film Fund’s ‘Pillars’, a panel of international artists and scholars, are: Jessica Habie, Deema Dabis, Rashid Abdelhamid and a pair of film-makers calling themselves Tarzan and Arab.
The judges include Amreeka director Cherien Dabis, writer-actress Najla Said, film scholar Robert Keser, Arab Film Festival programmer Laurence Mazouni, film-maker Natalie Handalm, Palestinian artist Sharif Waked and film-maker Iman Aoun.
The goal is to release five projects every two years, growing the funding pool every year over a 10-year period until the collective is able to develop, produce and distribute five feature projects every funding cycle.
The...
- 1/16/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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