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75East Signs ‘You Will Die At 20’ & ‘Goodbye Julia’ Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala


75East Signs 'You Will Die At 20' & 'Goodbye Julia' Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala

EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based global management and production company 75East has signed Sudanese writer-director and producer Amjad Abu Alala. You Will Die At 20 was shot in Sudan in December 2018 in the early days of the popular uprising against, with the struggles of the film’s protagonist described as a metaphor for the Sudanese people’s fight for democracy. The company’s biggest success to date has been the Mohamed Kordofani-helmed and Lupita Nyong ‘o-EP’d work Goodbye Julia, which won the Freedom Prize following its 2023 Cannes Un Certain Regard, and went on to break box office record s in Egypt and the Gulf.

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