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Red Sea Film Festival Managing Director Shivani Pandya Malhotra took a break from her busy schedule at this year's third edition of the festival to come into Deadline's Red Sea Studio and shed light on how this year's edition has been unfolding since it began on November 30.  Pandya Malhotra noted…

British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi stepped into Deadline's Red Sea studio this week to talk about her debut feature The Teacher, the challenges of shooting a film in Palestine and how the journey of the film has changed since the Israel-Hamas war began this year following the October 7…

For Saudi actress Ida AlKusay, starring in Rise of the Witches, the country's biggest show to date featuring a local cast and crew, was a dream come true.  "I got the part of my favorite character in my favorite novel that I used to read every day on the bus going to school," AlKusay told Deadline's…

"It was a dream come true to be able to shoot my first movie and it's a very personal story," said Paz Vega of her feature directorial debut Rita, which she shot earlier this year.  The coming-of-age drama, which is set in 1984, follows 7-year-old Rita and her 5-year-old brother Lolo from a working…

Catherine Martin has worked with Baz Luhrmann for 30 years and the costume and production designer says that each project offers up its own unique set of challenges that make her feel like she's doing her "doctorate in film studies all over again."  Stepping into Deadline's Red Sea Studio at the Red…

One of the buzziest local titles here at the Red Sea Film Festival is the historical drama Norah, starring rising actor Yagoub Alfarhan (Rashash).  Written and directed by Saudi filmmaker Tawfik Alzaidi, the pic marks the first entirely local production to shoot in the Kingdom's historic city of…

Muvi Cinemas' Adon Quinn stepped into Deadline's Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to talk about how rapidly the country's exhibition sector is growing and what is driving the burgeoning sector into cinemas.  Quinn noted that Muvi opened its first location in Jeddah in August 2019 and now has…

For In The Shadow of Beirut, first-time filmmaker Stephen Gerard Kelly spent five years living among the film's four featured families in the Sabra and Shatila neighborhoods outside Beirut as it became engulfed in economic and political crisis following a 1982 massacre.  "I never set out to make a…

A few years ago, Kim Chang-Hoon was working in a motel and dreaming up the story for his first film as a director – a profession he had wanted to enter ever since he was eight or nine years old.  "I started off by thinking about how the violent behavior of adults can affect a person when they're…

There's perhaps no better representative of the trajectory of the many artists taking position at the front of Saudi Arabia's nascent film industry than filmmaker Hakeem Jomah.  "Academically, I'm a medical doctor, but once the art scene started to boom here in Saudi Arabia, I decided I wanted to…

Rising Riyadh-based content company Telfaz11 is enjoying a banner year thanks to freestyle wrestling comedy Sattar, which had a record-breaking run in Saudi cinemas to become one of the highest grossing films in the territory ever. The company is at the third Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah with two…

Since premiering in this year's Cannes Critics Week, Amjad Al Rasheed's debut feature Inshallah A Boy has been travelling constantly on the festival circuit and was also selected as Jordan's official submission to the Oscars. The film is receiving its Arab world premiere here in competition at Red Sea…