Red Sea Souk opens submissions for 2025 Project Market
This is an opportunity for filmmakers to access funding, connect with decision-makers, and bring their stories to audiences around the world.
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This is an opportunity for filmmakers to access funding, connect with decision-makers, and bring their stories to audiences around the world.
Red Sea Fund to grant two awards of $6662.69 each for Development and Production categories.
Last year’s theme, “The New Home of Film,” celebrated the festival’s new headquarters Al-Balad, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Red Sea Film Foundation will also participate in the Saudi Pavilion at the European Film Market during the film festival.
The winning projects include two works-in-progress, and seven projects in development—reinforcing the Souk's dedication to nurturing cinematic brilliance and championing the next generation of storytellers.
The Souk opened its call for submissions to filmmakers across Asia for the first time this year, resulting in 28% of total submissions originating from the continent.
The 6th edition of the programme is open for submissions from aspiring filmmakers across MENA. It enables participants to develop their projects into full feature scripts with the help of ...
All selected projects will compete for the Red Sea Souk cash awards provided by the Red Sea Fund and awarded by the Project Market juries.
Accreditation for the fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival is open until September 22, 2024.
The Fund provides support for developing projects from the Arab and African region – whether they are features, short films or series.
The submission is open to films and projects directed by individuals of Saudi, Arab, African, or Asian nationality or origin.
The deadline for the submission of applications is January 7, 2023.
The films is a co-production between Egypt, Tunisia and France.
All 26 selected projects will compete for cash prizes offered by the Red Sea Fund, to be awarded by an international jury of producers.
Accreditation for the third edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival is open until September 18, 2023.
The submission is exclusively open to films and projects directed by Arab and African nationalities/origin.
Last year’s edition featured 143 films from 66 countries to 39,410 filmgoers and 4,345 film professionals, media and students, with an overall percentage capacity increase of 12%.
'The Burdened' stars Khaled Hamdan, Abeer Mohammed, Samah Alamrani and Awsam Abdulrahman.
A total of $830,000 in cash prizes and $126,000 in-kind prizes were awarded to Saudi, Arab and African projects in the development and work-in-progress stages.
A diverse line-up of movies features local stories from new and established storytellers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and UAE.
In addition to the Marketing & Distribution Award, MAD Solutions will continue to hold a booth at the Red Sea Souk, the festival’s industry market.
The film will screen at the upcoming Red Sea Souk Project Market of the Red Sea International Film Festival.
The second edition of the Souk will take place from December 3-6, with an awards ceremony on the final day.
The festival will open with Shekhar Kapur’s romantic comedy ‘What's Love Got to Do With It?’ and conclude with 'Valley Road' by Saudi director Khaled Fahd.
There are 10 feature debuts across the Red Sea Souk selection, which aims to discover and connect Arab and African filmmakers to the international film community.
Other producers involved in this project include Canal+, Hecat, Freemonkeyz and Sihamou Productions.
The second edition is slated for December 1 to 10 and hopes to bring the best in Arab and World Cinema to Jeddah.
The first edition of the festival featured 138 films and shorts from 67 countries in 34 languages, with female directors representing 38% of the slate.
In cooperation with TorinoFilmLab, Red Sea Lodge seeks to empower cinematic talents to launch and succeed in the film industry.
The four-day event presented 23 projects in development, including 12 Red Sea Lodge projects, 11 Red Sea Souk projects, and five films in post-production.
In the Souk area, six exhibitors will offer activities, including MBC, Telfaz11, Nstars, Effat University, SAIP, and MAD Celebrity.
The festival will open with 'Cyrano' by British director Joe Wright and conclude with 'Bara El Manhag' by Egyptian director Amr Salama.
The initiative will help support Arab and African filmmakers and offer them a platform to further develop and finance their projects and connect with the film industry.
Three committees of industry professionals have been selected for each section of funding.
The $10m Red Sea Fund will back more than 100 projects in its first year, as well as episodic content.
The Saudi-based festival, will select a Cairo Film Connection project from the fiction projects to attend the inaugural Project Market of the Red Sea Souk from March 13-16, 2020.
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