Netflix, as it ramps up Middle East operations, has announced two initiatives to reach out to Lebanon’s film and TV community: an emergency fund providing grants to below-the-line crew facing economic hardship, and a “Made in Lebanon” package of films playing on the giant streamer.
The $500,000 relief fund set up by Netflix in collaboration with the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (Afac) will be open for applications starting next week. It will provide financial support in the form of individual grants worth $2,000 per grant, a sum that, especially given Lebanon’s current economic constraints, is worth plenty more locally than it would be in the U.S.
From Oct. 26 until Nov. 9, below-the-line crew, craftspeople, and freelancers in the Lebanese film and television industry can apply for the fund by filling out an online application form. They must provide supporting documentation including a list of the five most recent projects they worked on,...
The $500,000 relief fund set up by Netflix in collaboration with the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (Afac) will be open for applications starting next week. It will provide financial support in the form of individual grants worth $2,000 per grant, a sum that, especially given Lebanon’s current economic constraints, is worth plenty more locally than it would be in the U.S.
From Oct. 26 until Nov. 9, below-the-line crew, craftspeople, and freelancers in the Lebanese film and television industry can apply for the fund by filling out an online application form. They must provide supporting documentation including a list of the five most recent projects they worked on,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Films by Ziad Doueiri and Nadine Labaki front charitable screenings.
Front Row Filmed Entertainment and partner Kuwait National Cinema Company (Kncc) are joining forces with leading Emirati arthouse venue Cinema Akil on a series of screenings aimed at raising funds for the victims of the explosion in Beirut last week.
Under the initiative, dubbed the Beirut Disaster Relief Screenings, the partners will screen Ziad Doueiri’s West Beirut and Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? at the cinema on August 14 and 15.
All proceeds from the ticket sales will go to the Lebanese Red Cross relief efforts.
At least...
Front Row Filmed Entertainment and partner Kuwait National Cinema Company (Kncc) are joining forces with leading Emirati arthouse venue Cinema Akil on a series of screenings aimed at raising funds for the victims of the explosion in Beirut last week.
Under the initiative, dubbed the Beirut Disaster Relief Screenings, the partners will screen Ziad Doueiri’s West Beirut and Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? at the cinema on August 14 and 15.
All proceeds from the ticket sales will go to the Lebanese Red Cross relief efforts.
At least...
- 8/10/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Russian producer Alexander Rodnyansky has set Ziad Doueiri to direct an adaptation of Debriefing the President. Daniel Stiepleman, who scripted the upcoming Ruth Bader Ginsburg drama On the Basis of Sex, will adapt former CIA analyst John Nixon’s non-fiction book about his experience being the first American to identify and interrogate Saddam Hussein following his 2003 capture. The Lebanese-born Doueiri’s The Insult was last year nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. His first film, West Beirut, won the Prix Francois Chalais at Cannes and he also directed The Attack.
Nixon was a senior leadership analyst with the CIA from 1998-2011 who regularly wrote for and briefed those at the most senior levels of the U.S. government and later taught leadership analysis to the new generation of analysts coming at the Sherman Kent School, the agency’s in-house analytic training center.
After confirming the prisoner was indeed the...
Nixon was a senior leadership analyst with the CIA from 1998-2011 who regularly wrote for and briefed those at the most senior levels of the U.S. government and later taught leadership analysis to the new generation of analysts coming at the Sherman Kent School, the agency’s in-house analytic training center.
After confirming the prisoner was indeed the...
- 9/28/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The idea for “The Insult” originated from a real life event much like the one that starts the film. While living in Beirut, Lebanon, director Ziad Doueiri was watering plants on his balcony when the broken gutter sprayed someone. Doueiri exchanged words with the stranger, but later apologized. “A couple of days later I started thinking this thing could’ve really gone out of control,” he recalls. “The thing could’ve become very, very dangerous.” So he thought, “What if I start my story in a similar way, where the film starts with a very similar incident, very insignificant, and instead of it getting fixed or resolved, it gets complicated?” But the conflicts weren’t limited to the action on-screen. The filmmaker faced political resistance off-screen as well. Watch our exclusive video interview with Doueiri above.
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“The Insult...
See 2018 Oscar nominations: Full list of Academy Awards nominees in all 24 categories
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- 2/13/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Lebanon is going to the Academy Awards.
The Insult, Ziad Doueiri's tense Beirut-set courtroom thriller, has become the first Lebanese film to be nominated in the Oscars' foreign-language category, being named to the final shortlist of five on Tuesday.
The film, which picked up the best actor award for Kamel El Basha in Venice, was the 14th film to be submitted by Lebanon since 1978 (and Doueiri's second, after his 1998 debut West Beirut). Other notable titles include Nadine Labaki's 2011 drama Where Do We Go Now?, which was widely expected to be nominated.
The nomination ...
The Insult, Ziad Doueiri's tense Beirut-set courtroom thriller, has become the first Lebanese film to be nominated in the Oscars' foreign-language category, being named to the final shortlist of five on Tuesday.
The film, which picked up the best actor award for Kamel El Basha in Venice, was the 14th film to be submitted by Lebanon since 1978 (and Doueiri's second, after his 1998 debut West Beirut). Other notable titles include Nadine Labaki's 2011 drama Where Do We Go Now?, which was widely expected to be nominated.
The nomination ...
- 1/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Lebanon is going to the Academy Awards.
The Insult, Ziad Doueiri's tense Beirut-set courtroom thriller, has become the first Lebanese film to be nominated in the Oscars' foreign-language category, being named to the final shortlist of five on Tuesday.
The film, which picked up the best actor award for Kamel El Basha in Venice, was the 14th film to be submitted by Lebanon since 1978 (and Doueiri's second, after his 1998 debut West Beirut). Other notable titles include Nadine Labaki's 2011 drama Where Do We Go Now?, which was widely expected to be nominated.
The nomination ...
The Insult, Ziad Doueiri's tense Beirut-set courtroom thriller, has become the first Lebanese film to be nominated in the Oscars' foreign-language category, being named to the final shortlist of five on Tuesday.
The film, which picked up the best actor award for Kamel El Basha in Venice, was the 14th film to be submitted by Lebanon since 1978 (and Doueiri's second, after his 1998 debut West Beirut). Other notable titles include Nadine Labaki's 2011 drama Where Do We Go Now?, which was widely expected to be nominated.
The nomination ...
- 1/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Although Ziad Doueiri’s punchy and history-shrouded drama “The Insult” theoretically turns on the saying and refusal to apologize for two simple words, there is so much guilt and fury riddled context behind those words that they quickly become irrelevant. A Lebanese filmmaker (“West Beirut,” “The Attack”) who frequently focuses his eye on the disputatious legacy of his region’s recent history, Doueiri uses a seemingly minor conflict between two men over a gutter to show how his country’s tangled legacy of religious strife and balkanized political landscape can turn almost any interaction into warfare.
Continue reading ‘The Insult’: Controversial & Riveting Drama Steps Into The Minefield Of Palestinian-Christian Animosity [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Insult’: Controversial & Riveting Drama Steps Into The Minefield Of Palestinian-Christian Animosity [Review] at The Playlist.
- 1/11/2018
- by Chris Barsanti
- The Playlist
The Insult
Director: Ziad Doueiri
Writer: Joelle Touma
After spending most of the 90s as an assistant cameraman on Quentin Tarantino films, Ziad Doueiri broke out on his own in 1998 with West Beirut, followed by Lila Says (2002), and breaking out in 2012 with the compelling The Attack.
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Director: Ziad Doueiri
Writer: Joelle Touma
After spending most of the 90s as an assistant cameraman on Quentin Tarantino films, Ziad Doueiri broke out on his own in 1998 with West Beirut, followed by Lila Says (2002), and breaking out in 2012 with the compelling The Attack.
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- 1/5/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Mel Gibson to film special trailer for the festival; plans for Lebanese cinema focus and tributes to late Us actor John Cazale and Chris Penn.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) has unveiled plans for its 50th ‘annivarysary’ edition, set to run July 3-11.
The jubilee edition will include a look at recent Lebanese cinema, a retrospective of late Soviet-Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko’s work and tributes to Us actors John Cazale and Chris Penn.
Actor-director Mel Gibson will also film a special trailer for the festival, set to be shot in Los Angeles in early May. The Lethal Weapon star received the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at last year’s Kviff.
Gibson continues a tradition that sees the recipients of this award feature in a short trailer for the following festival. It will be written and directed by Martin Krejčí, who has collaborated with Ivan Zachariáš since the beginning of the...
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) has unveiled plans for its 50th ‘annivarysary’ edition, set to run July 3-11.
The jubilee edition will include a look at recent Lebanese cinema, a retrospective of late Soviet-Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko’s work and tributes to Us actors John Cazale and Chris Penn.
Actor-director Mel Gibson will also film a special trailer for the festival, set to be shot in Los Angeles in early May. The Lethal Weapon star received the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at last year’s Kviff.
Gibson continues a tradition that sees the recipients of this award feature in a short trailer for the following festival. It will be written and directed by Martin Krejčí, who has collaborated with Ivan Zachariáš since the beginning of the...
- 4/28/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) is partnering with the Berlin-based Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art to screen productions from Diff’s list of the 100 greatest Arab films. The showcase will kick off June 13 with Ziad Doueiri’s West Beirut in the German capital's landmark Arsenal theater and run for six days. Diff worked with nearly 500 prominent regional and international film critics, writers, novelists, academics and other arts professionals to curate "Cinema of Passion," the first project of its kind in the Arab world to draw up a 100 greatest film list. Diff artistic director
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- 6/9/2014
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in partnership with the Dubai International Film Festival (Diff), will present “Arab Cinema Classics,” a two-day screening series of the best in Arab film on Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 21, at the Bing Theater in Los Angeles. With input from nearly 500 prominent film critics, writers, novelists, academics and other arts professionals, Diff in 2013 compiled a tally of the 100 greatest Arab films of all time. The Academy will screen three selections from Diff’s Top 10: “The Night of Counting the Years” (“Al-Mummia,” 1970) Friday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. Director Shadi Abdel Salam’s film is based on the true story of the Horabat tribe’s 1881 plundering of pharaohs’ tombs in the ancient city of Thebes. Long unavailable for exhibition, the film was restored in 2009 by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation. “Cairo Station” (“Bab el Hadid,” 1958) Friday, June 13, at 9:20 p.m.
- 5/30/2014
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Lebanese writer/director Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut – ’98, Lila Says- ’04) finally returns behind the camera for his third feature, an adaptation of the novel by Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra. A successful Arab surgeon living in Israel finds his life shattered when he finds his wife was involved in a suicide bombing thus sending him on a journey full of unintentional discovery. A thoroughly profound, layered and complex film, the Israeli and Palestinian conflict provides the backdrop for what is essentially a thriller with a love story at its core. With Ali Suliman in a dramatically anchor-heavy lead role, and equally strong perfs from supporting players Reymond Amsalem and Uri Gavriel, according to our four-star review, “this is perhaps the most humanistic take on the never-ending conflict to ever be presented on the screen, definitely an important and compelling film.” The Attack [06.21 - NYC and Washington] received its world premiere showing at Tiff last fall where...
- 8/5/2013
- by Yama Rahimi
- IONCINEMA.com
Lebanon's tourism minister is considering suing the makers of 'Homeland' over the way Beirut is portrayed.
In a scene from the latest episode of the hit Us TV series screened in the UK, a street in the Lebanese capital is shown swarming with militants carrying assault weapons as a jeep pulls up carrying the world's No 1 jihadi to a meeting with Hezbollah commanders. Meanwhile, Us snipers lurk on a rooftop.
The scene is actually filmed in Israel.
Claire Danes in Homeland
Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud said he is so upset about the portrayal of Beirut in the Emmy-winning show - which stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis - that he is considering a lawsuit.
"The information minister is studying media laws to see what can be done," he said.
Mr Abboud pointed to the scene with the snipers. Hamra Street in West Beirut is portrayed as a hotbed of violence,...
In a scene from the latest episode of the hit Us TV series screened in the UK, a street in the Lebanese capital is shown swarming with militants carrying assault weapons as a jeep pulls up carrying the world's No 1 jihadi to a meeting with Hezbollah commanders. Meanwhile, Us snipers lurk on a rooftop.
The scene is actually filmed in Israel.
Claire Danes in Homeland
Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud said he is so upset about the portrayal of Beirut in the Emmy-winning show - which stars Claire Danes and Damian Lewis - that he is considering a lawsuit.
"The information minister is studying media laws to see what can be done," he said.
Mr Abboud pointed to the scene with the snipers. Hamra Street in West Beirut is portrayed as a hotbed of violence,...
- 10/19/2012
- by PA
- Huffington Post
Beirut — Militants carrying assault weapons clear the area around a street, shouting in Arabic for people to get out of the way. A jeep pulls up: The world's No. 1 jihadi has arrived for a meeting with top Hezbollah commanders. On rooftops, U.S. snipers crouch unseen, the kingpin in their crosshairs at last.
The scene, from a recent episode of the hit U.S. Showtime series "Homeland," is supposed to be Beirut. But it is really in Israel, a country similar enough in some areas to stand in for Lebanon, yet a world away in most other respects.
The show about Arab terrorists and American turncoats has inadvertently become a tale of two cities. Some Beirutis are angry because the depiction of their city as swarming with militiamen is misleading and because they see Israel as the enemy. And in Israel, some are peeved that Haifa and even Tel Aviv...
The scene, from a recent episode of the hit U.S. Showtime series "Homeland," is supposed to be Beirut. But it is really in Israel, a country similar enough in some areas to stand in for Lebanon, yet a world away in most other respects.
The show about Arab terrorists and American turncoats has inadvertently become a tale of two cities. Some Beirutis are angry because the depiction of their city as swarming with militiamen is misleading and because they see Israel as the enemy. And in Israel, some are peeved that Haifa and even Tel Aviv...
- 10/19/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Militants carrying assault weapons clear the area around a street, shouting in Arabic for people to get out of the way. A jeep pulls up: The world’s No. 1 jihadi has arrived for a meeting with top Hezbollah commanders. On rooftops, U.S. snipers crouch unseen, the kingpin in their crosshairs at last.
The scene, from a recent episode of the hit U.S. Showtime series Homeland, is supposed to be Beirut. But it is really in Israel, a country similar enough in some areas to stand in for Lebanon, yet a world away in most other respects.
The show...
The scene, from a recent episode of the hit U.S. Showtime series Homeland, is supposed to be Beirut. But it is really in Israel, a country similar enough in some areas to stand in for Lebanon, yet a world away in most other respects.
The show...
- 10/19/2012
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
"The Attack," by the Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut), a former assistant cameraman on films by Quentin Tarantino, tells an unsettling story about Israel and Palestine. As it opens, an Arab surgeon Amin Jafaari (Ali Suliman) receives an Israeli prize for his life’s work. The same surgeon treats victims of a bombing that kills Jewish children, and the prime suspect turns out to be the surgeon’s wife. Amins is ostracized from most of his Jewish colleagues. After initial denial, Amin accepts that that hard evidence that his wife was the bomber, and travels to the Occupied Territories to find the sheik who taught and counseled her. The film adapts a novel by the Algerian writer, Yasmina Khadra, who publishes under a pseudonym. Shot in a thriller mode that accentuates melodrama, "The Attack" breaks new ground (certainly in Arab cinema) by confronting the role that ordinary citizens can...
- 9/12/2012
- by David D'Arcy
- Indiewire
Cohen Media Group and Focus World are teaming up to release The Attack in the U.S. and Canada in 2013. Cohen Media Group will be handling theatrical release and DVD distribution and sales while Focus World will be controlling all digital media and television rights.
The Attack, adapted from Yasmina Khadra.s international bestseller by the film.s director, Ziad Doueiri and with a screenplay by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma, is produced by Jean Bréhat and Rachid Bouchareb. John Wells is also a producer on the film. The Attack is a 3B Production and Douri Film, Uag, Scope Pictures and Random House Films co-production.
The Attack marks Doueiri.s third feature, following his critically acclaimed films West Beirut and Lila Says. Acclaimed international actor Ali Suliman (Paradise Now) stars as Amin Jaafari, an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon who has fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. His picture-perfect life is turned upside...
The Attack, adapted from Yasmina Khadra.s international bestseller by the film.s director, Ziad Doueiri and with a screenplay by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma, is produced by Jean Bréhat and Rachid Bouchareb. John Wells is also a producer on the film. The Attack is a 3B Production and Douri Film, Uag, Scope Pictures and Random House Films co-production.
The Attack marks Doueiri.s third feature, following his critically acclaimed films West Beirut and Lila Says. Acclaimed international actor Ali Suliman (Paradise Now) stars as Amin Jaafari, an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon who has fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. His picture-perfect life is turned upside...
- 8/27/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cohen Media Group and Focus World are joining forces for the North American 2013 release of Ziad Doueiri's "The Attack," a drama-thriller following an Arab surgeon who uncovers a shocking secret about his late wife, a victim of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The film will be a special presentation at Toronto in September. "The Attack" is Doueiri's third feature, following his critical successes "West Beirut" (1998) and "Lily Says" (2004), both of which had robust festival runs. The film is adapted from Yasmina Khadra's international bestseller, and stars Ali Suliman in the lead role. Programmer notes from the Tiff website: When a suicide bomber strikes at a Tel Aviv café, Dr. Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman), a Palestinian citizen of Israel and a highly respected surgeon, treats the wounded victims of the blast at a nearby hospital — at least those who will let him, as some refuse to be attended to by a.
- 8/27/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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