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Lebanese Indie House Abbout Productions To Receive Locarno’s Producing Award
Georges Schoucair became the CEO of Abbout Productions in 2004, and Myriam Sassine joined as lead producer in 2010.
In recent years, Schoucair and Sassine have produced films such as Costa Brava, Lebanon(Venice Orizzonti, 2021), Memory Box(Berlinale Competition, 2021), and works by local filmmakers like Ahmad Ghossein, Mohamed Malas, Ghassan Salhab, Oualid Mouannes, Cyril Aris, Ely Dagher, Rana Eid, and Myriam El Hajj, whose Diaries from Lebanon premiered in Berlinale Panorama in 2024. “The films Abbout have produced are a sign of a society that is vital, alive, and continues to look to the future with dogged confidence,” Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of Locarno, said in a statement. They have also launched a great many new talents in front of and behind the camera, helping to give Lebanon a new face, allowing it to meet its potential, and offering a complex portrait of the country that goes far beyond the trivializations of the violence of war.
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