Mostefa Souag, acting Director General of Al Jazeera Network said the 12th edition of AJFilm Festival will be postponed till 2017, due to heavy activities on celebrating the 20th anniversary.
The 11th edition of the Aljazeera Festival that will be held in November has extended application lodgment until July 31st, and films submission until August 31st.
Rashid Masharawi says cinema isn't neutral and we can't make a film and claim it is reality without the director's intervention. We can say it is reality from director's perspective.
Mustafa Sawaq, acting general manager of Al Jazeera Network, said that the maturity reached after 10 years does no harm in conducting self-review for a better.
The Emirati director, Amal Al-Agrrobi, explores the world of autism through music. She successfully completed a film entitled The Brain That Sings and won an award at Aljazeera Festival.
Nature’s Kid won the first award in the New Horizon Competition, while Sary-Oy won the second award and it features the life of a falcon hunter in a remote area.
Ali Al-Sennari: it was a nice gesture from the Aljazeera Festival which helped us in passing the sensations and concerns of the deaf people to the society.
There is a unified framework that governs the producers' dealings with Aljazeera in order to identify the work features. It is a much needed measure that TV Channels need.
This year, around 60 producers attended this workshop which is something we are proud of, and will definitely improve our work.
Final Image deserved the Golden Award at the 6th Al Jazeera Festival in 2010. It successfully combined the threads of time and individuals in different countries: Chile, Argentina, and Sweden.
A group of fourth-year students from Northwestern University in Qatar produced two short documentary films about housemaids in Qatar and a Palestinian girl who has never been her homeland.
34 stakeholders took part in the fair 23 from Qatar while 11 from abroad as well as 7 satellite channels, such as Shaer Rasoul TV, Russia Today, Al-Shrouq TV.
Pakistan 7.6, produced by Aljazeera Children Channel about the devastating earthquake that hit Pakistan in October 2005, gained the interest of the 2nd edition attendees at Aljazeera Festival 2006.
The following figures participated in a seminar about cinema and human rights: Simon Scores from the Red Cross; Sophie Scot from Doctors without Borders Organization; and the director Mustafa Al-Azawi.
The Palestinian Lyana Saleh is the youngest cinema director -17 years old- and her film A Ball and a Coloring Box was well-regarded by the audience in the Arab festivals.