It’s been 10 months since “Sugarcane” first premiered at Sundance, where it picked up the Directing Award: U.S. for documentary. Since then, directors Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat have landed...

The Red Sea Fund—the financing arm of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Foundation—was created in 2019 to support emerging filmmakers and established talent from the Arab world and Africa. In the...

Here’s Variety‘s guide to film commissions, facilities and production incentives in the Middle East and North Africa and some of the films that have taken advantage of them. Jordan Film CommissionOne...

With growing expert crews, eye-watering tax incentives and staggering locations, the Middle East is currently a bubbling cauldron of activity for film shoots. From Hollywood blockbusters like Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part...

Four years after its launch, Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival has a lot to celebrate. The ambitious event, which is Saudi’s first full-fledged film festival and market, has rapidly become...

Taskovski Films Sales has acquired Miguel Calderón’s “Loss Adjustment,” ahead of its international premiere in the Envision Competition at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. https://youtube.com/watch?v=uiWrUwdrFhg&feature=oembed The film follows Pedro,...

Giulio Base, the new artistic director of the Torino Film Festival, is looking to make festgoers an offer they can’t refuse. While Ron Howard’s “Eden” opens the 42nd edition, being held...

CGI-animated feature “The Super Elfkins” has been sold to several territories, following its international premiere at the American Film Market in Las Vegas. The film, which won the kids...