Red Sea International Film Festival announces juries for second edition - BroadcastProME.com

Oscar nominee Kaouther Ben Hania, Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen and Egyptian prima Nelly Karim are among the assemblage subordinate of the Red Sea International Film Festival.

Red Sea International Film Festival, successful concern with Vox Cinemas and the MBC Group, has announced the assemblage for its Red Sea: Features and the Red Sea: Shorts Competitions for its 2nd edition, which volition tally from December 1-10 successful Jeddah.

The festival volition invited filmmakers, talent, media, manufacture professionals, and movie fans for a 10-day solemnisation of planetary cinema.

Legendary movie director, producer, and screenwriter, Oliver Stone volition preside implicit the Festival’s Red Sea: Features Competition Jury. The three-time Academy Award victor is down immoderate of the all-time masterpieces of cinema, including Scarface, The Doors, Wall Street, JFK, Midnight Express, Platoon, Born connected the Fourth of July, Nixon, and Natural Born Killers.

Speaking astir his role, Oliver Stone, President of the Red Sea: Features Competition Jury, said: “It is an honour to beryllium asked to preside implicit the assemblage for the Red Sea International Film Festival’s 2nd variation and on with my chap jurors, we are thrilled to beryllium watching a divers and archetypal enactment of films. This is simply a unsocial accidental for america each to recognise and observe the champion enactment from filmmakers from the Arab world, Asia and Africa. I’m precise overmuch looking guardant to this experience.”

Mohammed Al Turki, CEO of RedSeaIFF, added: “We are genuinely grateful to our 3 esteemed juries for their invaluable clip and I look guardant to welcoming them each to the Festival. The enactment this twelvemonth is bonzer and reflects the highest originative achievements from the Arab world, Asia and Africa. I’m assured this volition beryllium to beryllium an breathtaking and demanding task successful selecting winners.”

Jury President, Oliver Stone will beryllium joined by Egyptian prima Nelly Karim (The Blue Elephant), Oscar nominee Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin), acclaimed Georgian movie director Levan Koguashvili (Blind Dates), and Palestinian histrion Ali Suleiman (Paradise Now).

The Red Sea: Shorts Competition volition beryllium judged by filmmaker Joana Hadjithomas (Memory Box), Saudi writer and manager Shahad Ameen (Scales) and Nigerian histrion Ozzy Agu (The Lost Okoroshi).

The Red Sea: Features and Red Sea: Shorts Competitions volition showcase the highest originative achievements from a divers array of filmmakers from the Arab region, Asia and Africa. The line-up of 15 features and 26 abbreviated films volition showcase the astir compelling, and awesome enactment from the past year, with winners successful each contention selected by highly esteemed juries.

The Red Sea: VR strand which features a enactment of the latest starring Virtual Reality (VR) storytelling and creation projects successful and retired of contention from award-winning planetary artists and directors. The strand volition beryllium adjudicated by London-based Egyptian documentary filmmaker May Abdalla, Bangladeshi creator Naima Karim and Tribeca Film Festivals Immersive Curator Ana Brzezińska.