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Director Moe Alatawi on Why the Saudi Release of Desert Epic ‘Within Sand’ Marks Several Milestones (EXCLUSIVE)
Saudi director Moe Alatawi talks why the Saudi release of his desert epic 'Within Sand' breaks new ground.
The sumptuously shot drama — inspired by the true story of a 23-year-old tobacco merchant named Snam who is ambushed by thieves in the desert and left fend for himself with only a dagger while being tracked by a wolf – is being released by Front Row Filmed Entertainment after it scored the jury prize at Saudi’s Red Sea Film Festival in 2022. “Within Sand,” which features an all-Saudi cast led by Ra’ed Alshammari, Adwa Fahd, Muhand Alsaleh, Fatima Alsharif and Obaid Alwadaani – plus a real-life wolf – is the first homegrown production to shoot in the unique landscapes of Neom, the futuristic megacity in-the-making situated along the Red Sea coast in Tabuk, in the northwest of the kingdom. So what would happen is that we would shoot and then the DIT (digital imaging technician) would send the footage to the media hub and then at the end of the week I would go and check what we had shot so far with the editor.
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