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Film AlUla Using Tax Rebates and a Focus on Talent Development to Attract New Productions to Saudi
Film AlUla is using competitive tax rebates and a focus on talent development to attract new productions to Saudi.
As one of the talent development program’s sponsors AlUla, helped fund creative retreats and trips to film sets for filmmakers participating in the Lodge, where they had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience on projects like Johnny Depp’s upcoming directorial effort “Modi,” which will have its world premiere at San Sebastian later this month. One of the main hurdles in bringing more international productions to Saudi is making the bureaucracy seem less daunting to American and European teams, who might be unfamiliar with working in the region. Some leading film titles Film AlUla has supported this year include musician Anderson .Paak’s feature debut “K-POPs!” following a musician from LA who attempts to regain relevancy and reinvigorate his career by joining the band for a K-Pop competition show and Osama Alkhurayji’s debut “Siwar,” about a Turkish and a Saudi family whose fates become intertwined due to a revelation about their newborns.
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