She won the second edition of the "Abu Dhabi Festival" competition.

Promising Emirati scenarios...from paper to the "Al Ain Cinema" screen

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The Al Ain International Film Festival revealed that the winning scenarios in the second edition of the "Abu Dhabi Festival for Unexecuted Screenplay" competition for short films, with the support of the "Abu Dhabi Festival", the strategic cultural partner, which went to young Emirati writers, are: the scenario of "Al-Mizan" by Ali Lari, and the scenario Its “text” is written by Sultan Bin Davon, and the “Tuffaha” scenario is written by Khalaf Jamal Al-Fayrouz, which was implemented and transferred from paper to the golden screen.

The "Emirati Short Falcon" will be shown in the official competition in the fifth session of the "Al Ain International Film Festival", which will be held from the sixth to the 11th of next February.

The competition, which was launched during the last session of the "Al Ain Film Festival", aims to reveal new talents that will create a new generation of Emirati writers to enrich local content with topics presented to cinema and create a creative situation.

The winning scenarios were selected by a specialized arbitration committee, which was chaired by Emirati director and writer Saleh Karama, with a member of the committee, screenwriter, Emirati director Dr. Hussein Ibrahim.

Each scenario won a prize of 20,000 dirhams, which went to the screenwriter, which helped the writers in the process of transforming the scenarios into cinematic works with serious and purposeful content.

The director and founder of Al Ain International Film Festival, Amer Salmeen Al Marri, expressed his happiness at the continued cooperation with the Abu Dhabi Festival, one of the most prominent cultural events leading locally and globally, as the strategic and cultural partner of the festival. The script must be original and written directly to the cinema, or taken from a published literary work, and the text of the film must be fictional and not documentary, and the submitted scenario must cover a viewing period of no more than 30 minutes.

Al-Marri added, "The festival received in the second edition of the competition a large number of distinguished scenarios, which heralds the birth of an elite group of new young authors in this field, whose launch will be through (Abu Dhabi Festival for Unexecuted Scripts)", wishing success to the winning scriptwriters in the edition. The second of the competition, and for their films to gain approval after being shown on the screens of the fifth session of the “Al Ain International Film Festival”.

For her part, the founder of the Abu Dhabi Group for Culture and Arts, the founder and artistic director of the Abu Dhabi Festival, Huda Ibrahim Al-Khamis, said: “Our cooperation with the Al Ain International Film Festival is renewed in its fifth session as cultural partners within the framework of our vision to enable the sustainability of our cultural and creative industries, support creativity and investment in youth, and enable them to Achieving their dreams and honing their skills in the cinema sector, which is an essential pillar of sustainable development and the renaissance of the arts in the country.

She added: «I congratulate the winners of the (Abu Dhabi New Screenplay Festival) competition, which contributes to improving screenwriting skills, stimulating the Emirati film industry, and they are: Ali Larry, Sultan Bin Dafoun, and Khalaf Jamal Al-Fayrouz, for winning the competition, leading to the production of their short films: « Al-Mizan”, “Nasah” and “Tuffaha”, which embodied the distinction of their scenarios and their creative contribution to the expression of the Emirati identity, reflecting our endeavor to encourage and embrace the creative Emirati youth who aspire to be global and walk towards it with confident steps.

Amer Al-Marri:

• "The second edition of the competition received a large number of distinctive scenarios, which heralds the birth of an elite group of new young authors."

Huda Al-Khamis:

• "The (Abu Dhabi New Screenplay Festival) competition contributes to improving screenwriting skills, stimulating the Emirati film industry."

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