On 10th December, the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) will be dedicating an entire day of the Dubai Film Forum to broadcasting. The sessions will focus on content platforms, distribution and the regions changing viewing habits. Dubai Film Forums ‘Broadcasters Day’ will commence with a panel entitled How to Export Local Content. It will focus […]
On 10th December, the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) will be dedicating an entire day of the Dubai Film Forum to broadcasting. The sessions will focus on content platforms, distribution and the regions changing viewing habits.
Dubai Film Forums ‘Broadcasters Day’ will commence with a panel entitled How to Export Local Content. It will focus on how the region’s producers can gain exposure to international markets. This session will be followed by International Market Spotlight: Co-production and Distribution in Europe, Japan and Russia, which will outline how content ‘travels’ in world markets, with case studies.
Later in the day, panel discussion Broadcasting in the Arab World Now and in the Future will delineate how broadcasters such as OSN, MBC and Sky News Arabia keep ahead of the curve in the age of online and alternative platform viewing. The session finally culminates by Optimising Your Budget and Creating a Design Value with VFX, which will outline new advances in visual effects for all budgets.
Television has long been an important step in funding film projects through co-production, pre-sales and distribution, and with viewing habits in the region and around the world rapidly changing, broadcasters and film professionals must keep abreast of new developments. Dubai Film Market is the leading industry platform in the world dedicated to Arab cinema and our aim for our ‘Broadcasters Day’ panel is to enrich regional film professionals’ understanding of their place in an international system of content production that is in a state of constant flux, stated Jane Williams, Director of Film Forum and Dubai Film Connection.
