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Palestinian Producer Hanna Atallah & Lebanese Filmmaker Darine Hotait Launch Development & Production Company Route 243 – Cannes Market
Palestinian Producer Hanna Atallah & Lebanese-American Filmmaker Darine Hotait Launch Route 243 - Cannes Market
EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian Producer Hanna Atallah and Lebanese-American writer-director Darine Hotait are joining forces on multi-format development and production company Route 243, with the aim of championing underrepresented voices and narratives with global resonance. They are joined in the venture by Amina Abodoma, a former consultant at Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures and creative and development director/producer on several TV series, including Echoes of the Past, Without Prior Notice and the adaptation of The Killing, Monataf Khatar. Further projects on the company’s slate include genre-bending time travel fantasy Hotait’s Like Salt; Mokeb, a feature adaptation of Pakistani-American playwright Hana Fatima Dehradunwala’s off-Broadway comedy about a millennial’s spiritual journey on Iraq’s Arbaeen pilgrimage from Najaf to Karbala, and Palestinian filmmaker Wisam Al Jafari’s dramedy The Hearse to the Final House of Happiness.
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