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International Insider: A Trip To MIP; El Gouna Underway; Edward Berger On ‘Conclave’
MIPCOM, El Gouna, AFM, Edward Berger on his film 'Conclave' and BBC Studios' Kylie Washington feature in this week's International Insider.
As more and more deaths were recorded in Gaza and Lebanon, El Gouna’s seventh edition got underway with the news Abdelwahad Shawky’s short film The Last Miracle would not open the fest as planned, and was being replaced by Nebojša Slijepčevíc’s Palme d’Or winner The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent. Mel’s extensive report on the situation noted that when El Gouna had first announced The Last Miracle, the point was made that Naguib Mahfouz’s original short story on which the film was based was written in the wake of the Six-Day War between Israel and a coalition of Arab states including Egypt in 1967. Speaking to me via voicenote from a ceremony at Soho House in West Hollywood (I was back at my decidedly less glamorous home office in southwest London), she said that while making a name in Tinseltown might be “scary and daunting,” the spirit of Ledger, who passed away tragically in 2008, gave her the courage to push ahead.
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