Arab Producers Lab – 1st Edition
Invitation to attend
A public panel titled “From Local Stories to Global Screens”
Date: Tuesday, 1st Oct 2024 @ 7:30 PM
Location: Royal Film Commission - Jordan - Film House
Discussion language: English with live interpretation to Arabic
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Deadline for confirmation: Saturday, 28st Sep, 2024
Meet the experts:
Titus Kreyenberg (Germany)
Titus Kreyenberg spent many years working as an executive producer for film and television before founding his own production company, unafilm. Since its inception, unafilm has produced and co-produced over 40 films that have been featured in prestigious Alist festivals around the world, including the Berlinale, Cannes, Toronto, Locarno, and IDFA.
Among the company's notable achievements, Heli won the Best Director award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and Bridges of Sarajevo was showcased in the Official Selection at Cannes in 2014. In 2018, I Am Not a Witch premiered at Directors' Fortnight, and in 2019, unafilm had four productions screening at the Berlinale. More recently, the company has presented works such as the documentary A Woman, the Ecuadorian feature La Piel Pulpo, the Locarno-premiered Electric Child, and César Augusto Acevedo's Horizonte, which just premiered at TIFF.
unafilm is an active member of industry organizations including ACE, EAVE, EFA, EPC, the German Producers Association, and the German Film Academy.
Titus Kreyenberg also shares his expertise as a tutor at EAVE, the Torino Film Lab, and the Biennale Cinema College.
Rula Nasser (Jordan)
Rula Nasser is an active Jordanian - Canadian film producer, her involvement in the film industry started in 1999, working on several International productions for the BBC, Discovery channels. She later joined the Royal Film Commission of Jordan for five years and established The Filmmaker's Support Program.
Having built this vast experience in various areas of production enabled Nasser to produce many local films that participated in several prestigious festivals around the world. The Last Friday was the first Jordanian film at Berlin international FF 2011, Waiting for P.O.Box was in the official competition of the Cannes Short International Film Festival 2012. My Love Awaits Me by the Sea at Toronto Film Festival 2013, and much more that took part in over 30 film festivals, also Nasser line-produced many international & Regional films for Hany Abu Assad, Mijke de Jong , Mia Hansen-Love and Xavier Gianno.
Hédi Zardi (France)
Over 20 years of experience in the film and TV industry in a wide variety of fields with a comprehensive knowledge of the international landscape. Experienced, innovative and motivated project developer and thinker, creative producer, and story editor. Hédi Zardi acted as an associate producer on several feature films, and he launched in 2015, with Fiorella Moretti, the international sales company Luxbox. After 8 years in international sales and coproduction, he is today the head of the Atlas Workshops, the industry and talent-development program initiated in 2018 by the Marrakech International Film Festival.
About the Arab Producers Lab
The Arab Producers Lab (APL), organized by the Royal Film Commission – Jordan (RFC), is an immersive regional program aimed at Arab producers and directors working on their first or second narrative feature film. The program is in collaboration with the European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE), Europe’s leading training, development, and networking organization for producers.
About EAVE
EAVE is Europe’s leading training, development, and networking organization for producers. In addition to its flagship program, the renowned EAVE Producers Workshop, the organization is involved in various programs in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada, Africa, and the Middle East.
Founded in 1988, EAVE’s objectives are to provide professional training opportunities and to bring producers from different regions of the world together to facilitate co-production relationships. EAVE’s unique international network comprises over 3,000 producers and key decision-makers (funders, sales agents, distributors, commissioning editors, etc.). For more information, visit the EAVE’s website: https://eave.org/