Production Features

November 4, 2012

Jacques Mulder.Amidst the boom of corporate films and commercials shot on location in Dubai, there are also stories that need to be told. One girl had...

Animation gives life to Lebanese mystery

September 17, 2012

Abdallah El Binni.Al Jazeera Documentary has produced a new hard-hitting and innovative production, The Imam and the Colonel, using 2D and 3D animation. The documentary investigates...

An ‘Element’ of Hollywood in Bahrain

September 12, 2012

Saleh Nass and Chaker Ben Yahmed with a member of their crew.They started out with a laptop, two hard disks, and a dream. Today, Bahraini director...

TreeHouse takes flight with helicam

September 7, 2012

Hayley Doyle meets up with Hazem Amin, founder and managing director of TreeHouse, a Dubai-based production house that offers professional helicam servicesAs new production houses begin to mushroom in an...

Hindistani beckons

August 16, 2012

Director Aws Al Sharqi.The second season of Hindistani, a popular Saudi comedy series that includes a Bollywood-style song-and-dance sequence is being shown on OSN Yahala as...

Jordanian cinema on the rise

July 23, 2012

Nadia Eliewat and Fadi G HaddadBroadcastPro Middle East meets up with two Jordanian filmmakers as they put the final touches to their first feature film When...

Mango Jammin

June 8, 2012

BroadcastPro Middle East takes an exclusive tour of the hottest new audio production house in DubaiEarly this year, Dubai became home to...

Swimming with sharks

March 13, 2012

Lack of funding from the regions TV industry is curtailing the production of local natural...

Filming Arabia Felix

March 6, 2012

Using a Canon 5D, a rising star in...

Sound moves

March 6, 2012

discusses Foley, one of the most important aspects of sound in film, and one that is often overlooked in productionIn dramas and character...

YahLive provides capacity for London 2012 Olympics

February 20, 2012

YahLive has allocated both satellite capacity and a number of HD channels to provide broadcasters with connectivity and service, from London to the Middle...

Sky News Arabia moves into new studio complex

February 8, 2012

Sky News Arabia, the free-to-air, 24-hour Arabic rolling news channel, to be launched in spring 2012, announced the move of...

Stop talking, start filming

January 25, 2012

In the second part of this series, Supriya Srinivias speaks to a motley team of people involved in the 48-hour Film Project on different levelsForty eight hours is an unforgiving...

48 Hours

January 24, 2012

The 48-hour film project saw aspiring filmmakers and industry professionals gather together on November 24 to celebrate the winning projects of this two-day endeavour. In the first part of this...

DIFF educates emerging filmmakers

January 15, 2012

Students from the Department of Media and Communications, Manipal University, Dubai, in an exclusive partnership with BroadcastPro ME, bring you the highlights from some of the key panel discussions at...

A New Beginning

January 9, 2012

Hindistani, OSNs first home production secured the award for Best Arabic Drama at the ASBU BroadcastPro awards that were held in...

New concept in mobile tapeless workflow

January 3, 2012

Oxygen DCT has launched a new concept in mobile production for field and on-set recording for television and film productions. Featuring...

From sitcoms to zombies, Cinedeck Extreme delivers

December 14, 2011

The Cinedeck Extreme cinema grade monitoring, recording and playback device is delivering results for digital facilities company Filmscape, which recently supplied units to a variety of clients including a major...

Expeditionist Adrian Hayes uses Thuraya for 1,500 km journey

November 29, 2011

The innovative solutions of Thuraya have been selected as the main telecom service to be deployed by the Footsteps of Thesiger team member, Adrian Hayes and a support film crew...

DIFF’s Gulf Voices showcase powerful regional films

November 16, 2011

Five short films offering powerful insights into the changing face of life in the Gulf region will be screened...

Tuning into Libya

November 15, 2011

With the fall of the Gaddafi regime last month, BroadcastPro ME had the exclusive opportunity to explore one media groups entry into Libya and the launch of its multi-million dollar...

Exclusive – Icon Art Production to launch film initiative

August 29, 2011

Dubai-based production house Icon Art Production is gearing up to launch a non-profit initiative titled International Independent Film Makers Club (IIFM) that will support four...

Desert Diary

August 7, 2011

In an exclusive interview, Azza Aboul Magd talks to BroadcastPro Middle East about switching gears from advertising executive to executive producer on an independent...

Blink expands system set up

July 18, 2011

Dubai-based post production house Blink Studios recently upgraded its facility with a...

Avid offers crossgrade promotion for FCP users

July 6, 2011

Avid is offering a Final Cut Pro crossgrade promotion for qualified Final Cut Pro customers.The offer aims to encourage Final Cut Pro users to use Media Composer, Avids professional editing solution...

African DTT adoption advances with NGB contract

July 4, 2011

Next Generation Broadcasting (NGB), which operates as consumer brand Smart TV, will supply a DVB-T/T2 receiver conformance regime To Digital TV labs, an independent receiver conformance products and services provider,...

RAW Power

May 15, 2011

The 2011 edition of the Gulf Film Festival (GFF), a platform launched four years ago to give Arab filmmakers a more intimate space to screen their...

Laying out the HD roadmap

April 7, 2011

The Arab HDTV Group, an independent entity founded by some key broadcast players in the Middle East, held its fourth annual...

Saudi SFX sensation

April 2, 2011

Cars exploded, windshields crashed, and people ran with sticks, knives and fire bottles as parents tried to secure their children. As a family...

Producing stereoscopic 3D content- A practical guide

April 1, 2011

One would assume that when undertaking a stereoscopic 3D project, the team will be conceptualising their ideas in 3D.And yet, the reason for the notoriety associated with Stereoscopic 3D or...

Guerilla filmmaking

December 22, 2010

Dubai-based Iranian filmmaker Mahshid Zamani recently produced UAE: 350 Maybe Less, a 25-minute environmental awareness documentary.UAE: 350 Maybe Less was produced to make UAE residents more conscious of their excessive...

Short takes

November 10, 2010

Eight aspiring filmmakers were sent to the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, where they undertook a screenwriting workshop and worked with mentors such as writer and director Ruba Nadda and...

Scaling new heights

November 7, 2010

Shooting at 5,000 feet above sea level in the lush forests of Munnar, a small hill station in the south of India can be a dramatically different and challenging experience...

Another dimension

Manufacturers, broadcasters, producers and an ever-increasing band of filmmakers are in agreement that 3D represents an important part of the future of the film and TV industry. But when it...

DSLRs change video production in Middle East

Cameras designed for still photography have, in the last year, begun to have a huge impact on the video production market. One of the first in the region to exploit...

Journey into Space

In June 1985, seven men travelled into space on the Discovery STS-G51 space shuttle with a cargo that included American, Mexican and Arabian domestic communications satellites. While the event saw...

Unwinding at Colonia Film