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Doha Film Institute unveils 44 projects for 2024 spring grants at Cannes 375m1a
The selection includes 25 women filmmakers, and 14 returning grantees.
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NewsDoha Film Institute Qumra Special 2024 86727
The Doha Film Institute’s (DFI) incubator event that took place March 1-6.
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FeaturesHow Qumra’s “core idea” has sustained the project incubator through its 10th edition 566u22
“We wanted a place where filmmakers would be inspired and would be able to progress their films.”
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NewsAtom Egoyan hopes for a new Armenian wave of filmmakers; has desire to direct a musical 192i1j
Egoyan discussed topics including artificial intelligence during his Qumra masterclass.
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‘Birdman’ sound designer Martin Hernandez details Netflix project ‘The Master Of Monarchs’ 483x31
The documentary series follows an environmental activist murdered in 2020 for standing up to organised crime groups.
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Claire Denis talks new Africa-set film ‘The Fence’, and why she will never retire 3e5y6j
“The best way to retire is to die. I would like to go on making films.”
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French director Leos Carax says it is “easier to take money from producers you don’t like” 2d5f65
Carax discussed his mid-length film C’est pas moi in Qumra.
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Toni Collette talks projects as actor, producer and director in Qumra 1tq5n
Acting and directing makes ”one less person you have to communicate with” says Collette.
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Jim Sheridan: “The whole film industry is in the emergency room” 6xd2q
Irish director Sheridan updates on multiple projects; talks Daniel Day-Lewis, streamers, Israel-Hamas conflict.
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Doha Film Institute execs call for ceasefire to “genocide in Gaza” at Qumra opening 5u5x61
DFI CEO Fatma Al-Remaihi and artistic advisor Elia Suleiman spoke on the ongoing conflict.
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"A champion of under-represented voices": Doha Film Institute’s Qumra celebrates its 10th edition 1t598
The Qatari project incubator has become an indicator of films that will launch at major festivals.
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Toni Collette s Qumra Masters programme as full project selection revealed 503047
Qumra projects from Alaa Eddine Aljem, Ana Naomi de Sousa.
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Claire Denis, Leos Carax, Jim Sheridan among Qumra Masters for 10th edition 682p46
Atom Egoyan, Martin Hernandez will also be Masters at the event.
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Doha Film Institute unveils 44 projects in latest funding round, including ‘Naseem, Fight With Grace’ 2ae72
Three UK co-production features among the 44 titles.
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Michael Winterbottom on slow pace of UK filmmaking, streamer influence on indies, future projects 3k6s4k
“In the heyday of cinema, everyone was making a film a year.”
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Costume designer Jacqueline West describes hiding a secret item in Timothee Chalamet’s ‘Dune’ outfit 75m6v
West has worked with Scorsese, Inarritu, Malick; and will design for Saudi project Neom.
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Stephen Frears’ ‘Billy Wilder And Me’ aiming for 2024 shoot, says Qumra master Christopher Hampton 1yd3x
Hampton gave updates on ‘Heart of A Soldier’, ‘White Chameleon’ and ‘Dalila’.
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David Parfitt teases ‘Hamlet, Prince Of Wales’ film, talks North East Screen plans 71j2a
”Our Hamlet is set in the UK in the future; politics have collapsed, the monarchy have taken over again.”
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Lynne Ramsay updates on ‘Stone Mattress’, ‘Polaris’, ‘Moby Dick’; talks Ezra Miller connection (exclusive) 2n6r31
Scottish filmmaker “hoping” to make Margaret Atwood adaptation ‘Stone Mattress’ this year.
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How a refreshed Qumra 2023 is making the most of the global spotlight 1k195w
The Middle East project incubator returns in-person for the first time since 2019.
