Qumra 2017 to Host Over 100 International Film Experts Including Festival Directors, Producers, Sales Agents and Consultants
The third edition of Qumra, the annual industry event by the Doha Film Institute focused on mentoring and promoting the new generation of filmmakers, will certainly organize over 100 worldwide movie industry specialists consisting of festival directors, producers, fund managers, sales professionals, script consultants, representatives, VoD systems and broadcasters amongst others, during the six-day event to be held from March 3 to 8 at Souq Al Waqif and the Museum of Islamic Art.
A variety of industry leaders who went to the previous versions have actually confirmed their engagement for the third time alongside numerous new organisations at the annual celebration committed to supporting very first- and second-time filmmakers on both an innovative and functional level. The delegates come from as away as Argentina to the UK, and India to The Netherlands and Egypt to the US.
The Qumra industry program is centered around 34 jobs from Qatar, the Arab region et cetera of the world at various stages of growth. The industry sessions are presented in 2 strands: tutorials, workshops, consultations and individually conferences for tasks still in advancement; and a series of work-in-progress and 'photo lock' testings and comments sessions for tasks in article production.
Fatma Al Remaihi, President of the Doha Film Institute, stated: "The excitement and dedication of these global film experts to advisor arising abilities is truly admirable, and we are very grateful to them. Qumra is now identified as a crucial and relevant project incubator between East that take advantage of first-rate filmmaking know-how, to benefit the participating tasks and gives them with the imaginative and useful assistance to scale up the high quality and reach of their movies.
" We have seen several effective and concrete end results for the projects created in the initial 2 versions of Qumra and I am certain that the links made between emerging filmmakers and industry advisors in the coming week will certainly additionally contribute to the development of a more durable regional movie industry and profit the participants far into the future."
Amongst the leading industry names to participate in the event this year are: Bero Beyer, Director of IFFR; Netlfix's Funa Maduka, Material Procurement - Global Independent Attribute Films & Documentaries; Andy Whittaker, Founder of UK supplier and worldwide sales agent Dogwoof; Philippe Bober, Managing Director of Coproduction Office; Christophe Leparc, Managing Director, Programmer at Quinzaine des Ralisateurs; Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director of Festival Del film Locarno; Remi Burah, Senior Executive Vice President, ARTE France Cinma; Filmmaker Tala Hadid and Manufacturer Michel Merkt.
There is a strong representation of consultants, movie institutes, movie funds, suppliers and sales representatives such as: Amazon.com, U.S.A; Arte France Movie theater, France; Cohen Media Group, U.S.A; Eye Films, Netherlands; European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, Luxembourg; The Suit Factory, Germany, Front Paddled Home entertainment, UAE; Gulf Movie, Iflix and Image Country of UAE; La Cinefoundation, France; the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Berlin; Netflix, U.S.A; Metropolis Art Cinema, Lebanon; Display Institute Beirut; Sundance Movie Institute, UNITED STATE; Torino Film Lab, Italy; Tribeca Film Institute, U.S.A; the World Movie theater Fund; Gulf Films of Qatar, among others.
A number of worldwide film festivals are represented at Qumra 2017 by their consultants, developers and various other authorities, including: Berlin International Movie Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Cannes Movie Festival, Toronto International Movie Festival, Dubai International Movie Festival, Locarno International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sarajevo Movie Festival, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Venice Movie Festival, Dublin International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Movie Festival, and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival to name a few.
Qatar-based organisations are stood for by groups from AJ Digital, AJ Documentary, AJ English in addition to over 120 Qatar-based movie, media and enjoyment delegates that will also take part in the programme, additional structure on the event's aim to connect local, regional and global industry for the benefit of emerging talent.
Qumra has 3 major components: Masterclasses by the Qumra Masters, which will certainly be led this year by Asghar Farhadi (Iran), Rithy Panh (Cambodia), Bruno Dumont (France), Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) and Paulo Branco (Portugal); industry conferences and testings. All jobs picked by the Doha Film Institute will certainly gain from the industry conferences with the experts to take their job to the following stage.
