The Doha Movie Institute has revealed contemporary particulars about its new Doha Movie Pageant, together with awards value greater than $300,000 in whole.
The inaugural version of the pageant, which builds on the DFI’s decade-old youth and family-skewed Ajyal Movie Pageant, will run from November 20 to twenty-eight.
It would characteristic 4 competitors strands: the Worldwide Function Movie Competitors, Worldwide Quick Movie Competitors, the Ajyal Movie Competitors, judged by the pageant’s youth jury, and the Made in Qatar Competitors, devoted to filmmakers primarily based in Qatar.
Particulars of the brand new pageant had been introduced because the DFI celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the announcement of its creation in Cannes in 2010 by DFI Chair H.E Sheikha Al Mayassa.
Fifteen years on, the institute is in Cannes with eight options supported by its grants program: Palme d’Or contender Renoir; Un Sure Regard titles Aisha Can’t Fly Away, Promised Sky, As soon as Upon a Time in Gaza; Critics’ Week movies Sleepless Metropolis and L’Mina; Administrators’ Fortnight title The President’s Cake and ACID’s Life After Siham.
The brand new worldwide pageant provides to the DFI’s wider program fostering movie tradition in Qatar and the Center East and North Africa area, which incorporates year-round workshops, the grants scheme and the bespoke Qumra trade occasion within the spring.
The Worldwide Function Movie Competitors jury will consist of 5 trade consultants deciding on winners in Greatest Narrative (with a prize cash of US$75,000), Greatest Documentary (US$50,000), Greatest Creative Achievement for characteristic narrative or documentary (US$45,000), and Greatest Efficiency (US$15,000) classes. A certificates of Particular Point out will even be introduced to a characteristic narrative or documentary.
Within the Worldwide Quick Movie Competitors, judged by a three-member jury, movies will compete for Greatest Movie – Narrative or Documentary (US$20,000), Greatest Director (US$12,000), and Greatest Efficiency (US$7,000).
Within the Worldwide Quick Movie Competitors, judged by a three-member jury, movies will compete for Greatest Movie – Narrative or Documentary (US$20,000), Greatest Director (US$12,000), and Greatest Efficiency (US$7,000).
Made in Qatar Competitors will have fun expertise primarily based in Qatar with awards for Greatest Quick – Narrative or Documentary (US$15,000), Greatest Director (US$10,000) and Greatest Efficiency (US$5,000) reinforcing DFI’s dedication to celebrating homegrown storytellers.
The Ajyal Movie Competitors, with a youth jury aged 16-25, will current awards for Greatest Function – Narrative or Documentary (US$35,000) and Greatest Quick – Narrative or Documentary (US$12,000).
An Viewers Award will even be introduced in the course of the pageant with the winner receiving a certificates and trophy.
“Doha Movie Pageant will not be solely a celebration of cinema, however a platform for purpose-driven storytelling amplifying essential voices which are redefining the worldwide movie panorama with depth, nuance, and fact,” mentioned DFI Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, who will even be the pageant director.
“It’s the subsequent chapter in our continued mission to nurture impartial filmmakers, encourage new views and foster cultural dialogue by cinema. The pageant will supply a vibrant assembly level for movie lovers, a stage for highly effective tales and a launchpad for a brand new era of cinematic expertise.”
DFF is an growth of the sturdy basis we constructed with Ajyal Movie Pageant as a singular platform for self-expression and inventive empowerment, and we look ahead to company celebrating the unifying energy of movie with us in Doha this November.” she added.
On that foundation, the brand new pageant will retain well-liked parts of Ajyal whereas introducing new dimensions linked to Qatar’s ambitions to be main participant within the arts, tradition, media and leisure worlds.
The pageant will unfold throughout the Qatari capital of Doha. Katara Cultural Village will host pink carpet occasions and premieres, whereas the Msheireb Downtown Doha will develop into the central hub for trade classes and particular occasions. The Museum of Islamic Artwork will current an intimate setting for brief movie screenings.
