Saudi Arabia’s Crimson Sea Worldwide Movie Pageant distributed over $900,000 in prizes at its Souk trade awards.
The largest award, the $75,000 Crimson Sea Souk Manufacturing Award, went to Katia Jarjoura’s Lebanon-France co-production Robbing Beirut. Produced by Michel Zana for Blue Practice Movies, the movie follows a younger lady who turns into a financial institution robber as a way to pay for her sister’s leukaemia therapy.
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Two additional titles acquired prizes in the identical part, for Tasks in Growth. Makbul Mubarak’s Watch It Burn took the $30,000 Crimson Sea Souk Growth Award; with Aboozar Amini’s Tahmina receiving a $20,000 particular point out.
Within the Crimson Sea Labs, Mohamad Al’Omda’s Blue Card gained the $70,000 Manufacturing Award for a Crimson Sea Lodge undertaking. The Sudanese-Egyptian co-production follows a younger man who flees Khartoum for Cairo, the place he embarks on a friendship together with his roommate, an Egyptian avenue meals vendor.
Written by Egyptian author Paula Thabet, the movie is produced by Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, whose function You Will Die At Twenty was Sudan’s first worldwide function Oscar entry in 2021. It was one in every of 4 prizes for the movie, totalling $148,000 worth throughout money and in-kind prizes.
Additional Crimson Sea Labs prizes went to Lydia Matata’s Kenyan drama Pepo Kali, successful $50,000; and Jawahine Zentar’s The Silent Ones, receiving $40,000 – each additionally Crimson Sea Labs Manufacturing Awards for a Crimson Sea Lodge undertaking.
Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir acquired three prizes for her second function Holy Cow (working title), after her debut The Mom Of All Lies gained the Un Sure Regard directing prize at Cannes 2023.
Holy Cow took the $50,00 ART Award for an Arab Undertaking in growth or manufacturing, in addition to an in-kind prize from Freshly Floor Tales and a $8,500 CNC prize from the Crimson Sea Souk Tasks in Growth jury.
El Moudir’s new movie centres on a truck driver who causes a diplomatic disaster when two Brazilian cows escape from his transport in Morocco.
Profitable Saudi initiatives on the Souk included Rulan Hasan’s psychological horror Shut Rose Shut, which took 4 prizes totalling $140,000 in worth.
“This 12 months’s Crimson Sea Souk winners mirror the unimaginable expertise and creativity rising from Saudi Arabia, Arab world, Africa, and Asia,” stated Shivani Pandya Malhotra, managing director of the Crimson Sea Movie Basis. “These areas maintain immense storytelling energy, and thru initiatives just like the Souk, we’re proud to help these voices, providing them a platform to flourish.”
“This version of the Souk Undertaking market had a file variety of assembly requests for the initiatives in choice which displays the excessive calibre and potential of the groups participating,” added Holly Daniel, director of the Crimson Sea Souk.
The Crimson Sea Worldwide Movie Pageant runs till Thursday, December 12.
Crimson Sea Souk 2024 winners
Arab Cinema Middle
Saudi winner – Do Re Mimi, prod. Jawaher Alamri
Arab winner – It’s Okay, I’m Solely Human, prod. Christelle Younes
Filmmore prize – Fuxi, dir. Qiu Jiongjiong
Freshly Floor Tales prizes – Holy Cow (working title), dir. Asmae El Moudir; Assa, A Fish In A Bowl, dir. Dahlia Nemlich
Impronta Movies prize – Farouk, dir. Halkawt Mustafa
Oticons prize – Fuxi, dir. Qiu JiongJiong
Shift Studios
Promotion packages – I Didn’t Signal Up For This, dir. Lana Komsany; Do Re Mimi, dir. Fatima Albanawi
DCP bundle – Blue Card, dir. Mohamed Al’Omda
Titrafilm work-in-progress award – Allah Is Not Obliged, dir. Zaven Najjar
Arab Radio and Tv Community
Saudi undertaking award – I Didn’t Signal Up For This, dir. Lana Komsany
Arab undertaking award – Holy Cow, dir. Asmae El Moudir
MAD Options award – Do Re Mimi, dir. Fatima Albanawi
MBC Academy/Shahid awards
Saudi undertaking – Hadd, dir. Jamal Kutbi
Growth/manufacturing/post-production awards – Shut Rose Shut, dir. Rulan Hasan; Blue Card, dir. Mohamed Al’Omda
Ambient Gentle awards
Undertaking in growth – It’s Okay, I’m Solely Human, dirs. Karim Ghorayeh, George Peter Barbari
Put up-production companies – A Winner Is Seen At The Begin, dir. Zhannat AlShanova
Rotana Studios awards
Arab movie award – Shut Rose Shut, dir. Rulan Hasan
Arab initiatives award – Blue Card, dir. Mohamed Al’Omda; Shut Rose Shut, dir. Rulan Hasan
Saudi undertaking award – Do Re Mimi, dir. Fatima Albanawi
Finest Media Manufacturing award – It’s Okay, I’m Solely Human, dir. Karim Ghorayeb, George Peter Barbari
CNC award – Holy Cow, dir. Asmae El Moudir
Ithra Saudi undertaking award – Hadd, dir. Jamal Kutbi
Works in progress awards
Put up-production particular point out – Fuxi, dir. Qiu Jiongjiong
Put up-production award – Guria, dir. Levan Koguashvili
Crimson Sea Labs awards
SeriesLab award: first winner – Chilly Case One, wris. Nithin Lukose, Hari Kirishnan; second winner – Era, wri. Mona Ombogo
SeriesLab award – Saria Othman Wants No Man, wri. Estephan Khattar
Crimson Sea Lodge undertaking particular point out – Shut Rose Shut, dir. Rulan Hasan
Crimson Sea Lodge undertaking manufacturing award – The Silent Ones, dir. Jawahine Zentar
Crimson Sea Lodge undertaking manufacturing award – Pepo Kali, dir. Lydia Matata
Crimson Sea Lodge undertaking manufacturing award – Blue Card, dir. Mohamed Al’Omda
Crimson Sea Souk initiatives in growth awards
Particular point out – Tahmina, dir. Aboozar Amini
Growth award – Watch It Burn, dir. Makbul Mubarak
Manufacturing award – Robbing Beirut, dir. Katia Jarjoura
