Rise Studios supports Arab talent at Cairo International Film Festival
As a Platinum sponsor, Rise Studios supported Cairo Industry Days, the festival's immersive workshop platform.
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As a Platinum sponsor, Rise Studios supported Cairo Industry Days, the festival's immersive workshop platform.
Three films will compete in the International Competition, three short films will compete in the Official Competition, and one in the Cairo Film Connection.
The movie is a semi-biographical tale about the director's early life and how he fell in love with filmmaking.
Among the 15 projects are Tamer Ashry's 'Inshallah A Boy', which won the Final Cut award in Venice, and Suzannah Mirghani's 'Cotton Queen'.
This year also marks the return of Cairo Industry Days, a subsection of the festival that helps budding filmmakers from the MENA region get into the industry.
At CID, there will be masterclasses, workshops, and panel discussions with Netflix executives, as well as Netflix Arabic series producers and actors
Over the past three years, CFC has awarded more than $600,000 to support Arab filmmakers.
The Cairo International Film Festival will be held from December 2 to 10 and the third edition of Cairo Industry Day will be held from December 4 to 7.
The deadline for receiving applications is October 6, through the festival's official website.
Organised for the second year in a row, the film script development lab will be dedicated to six teams of Arab writers and producers.
