Egyptian filmmaker Jad Chahine’s magical realism drama The Masters Of Magic And Magnificence and Libyan-US filmmaker Jihan’s characteristic documentary My Father And Qaddafi have scooped the highest prizes on the CineGouna business platform of the El Gouna Movie Competition.
Working October 25-31, the platform’s CineGouna Funding part showcased 21 tasks in growth and post-production.
Chahine’s debut characteristic The Masters Of Magic And Magnificence received the $15,000 CineGouna award for greatest undertaking in growth. The characteristic follows the magical circumstances surrounding the beginning of a bit of woman. A pair seeks counsel from the Oracle, solely to find {that a} previous mistake has cursed the household’s bloodline.
My Father And Qaddafi follows Jihan’s journey to unravel the disappearance of her father, the previous international minister of Libya, in Qaddafi’s regime. It received the $15,000 post-production prize.
The jury comprised Sudanese director and producer Amjad Abu Alala, identified for You Will Die at 20 and Goodbye Julia; Tunisian movie critic Lamia Guiga, inventive director of Carthage Movie Competition; and Nadia Dresti, founding father of Locarno Professional.
There have been additionally a raft of sponsored prizes value $339,500 in whole.
Amongst them, Egyptian filmmaker Ayman El Amir’s characteristic undertaking A Pair of Footwear in The Darkish Nook of The Moon received a $10,000 grant from ESLSCA College and $10,000 grant from Arab Radio & Tv (ART). It tells the story of a Coptic man, estranged in his distant village in Egypt, who goals of changing into a well-known actor, however his ambitions lead him to an sudden destiny. The movie might be shot in Barsha village in higher Egypt, the principle location for El Amir’s Cannes Golden Eye award-winning documentary The Brink of Goals
Different large winners of sponsored prizes included Saudi Arabia director Lama Jamjoom’s documentary Remind Me To Neglect, following the 2 generations of girls in a shelter for divorced, widowed, and aged girls in Saudi Arabia. Amongst its prizes had been $50,000 at least assure for gross sales and distribution from MAD Options and a $20,000 grant from MBC Studios and MBC Academy.
In the meantime, the winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear for greatest quick movie in 2023, Lebanese filmmaker Michelle Keserwany’s debut characteristic in growth collected three awards, together with $50,000 as an MG for gross sales and distribution from MAD Options.
Launched in 2017, similtaneously El Gouna Movie Competition, CineGouna has now supported numerous award-winning movies, together with Egyptian filmmakers Ayman El Amir and Nada Riyadh’s The Brink Of Goals, winner of this 12 months’s Cannes Golden Eye for greatest documentary, Lebanese director Ely Dagher’s 2021 Cannes Critics’ Week choice The Sea Forward and Goodbye Julia by Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani.
