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Film Crews Trek to Diverse Locations in the Middle East and North Africa
With growing expert crews, eye-watering tax incentives and staggering locations, the Middle East is a bubbling cauldron of activity for film shoots.
Head of the Abu Dhabi Film Commission Sameer Al Jaberi highlights how the team was “on location for less than a week” for the first “Dune,” but returned for nearly a month for the sequel. While for many years Morocco, Egypt and Jordan were the main destinations in the region, other countries have grown exponentially in the last decade, notably the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. From my experience of shooting in Tabuk as well as other places in the kingdom, I think the country is really ready for major productions,” Mohamed Hefzy, one of the leading producers in the Arab world and the founder of Egypt’s Film Clinic, says.
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