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How Film AlUla Helped Rising Saudi Filmmakers Craft Festival-Ready Short Films
Film AlUla's Mahsa Motamedi and rising Saudi filmmakers discussed crafting festival-ready short films with the help of the agency's Creates program.
As part of the Variety Global Conversations Summit at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Variety ‘s Italy and Middle East correspondent Nick Vivarelli sat down with Motamedi, director Maram Taibah and sister filmmakers Raneem and Dana Almohandes to discuss the impact of AlUla Creates on the Saudi Arabian film industry. AlUla also provided the “perfect backdrop” for her film, due to the “imaginative colors and shapes” of the Saudi Arabian mountains. Their animated short film, “Namoosah,” about a mosquito with musical aspirations, started as a school project before they brought it to AlUla.
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