EXCLUSIVE: The Egyptian Film Festival of El Gouna (October 23-30), the first main film event of the COVID era in the Middle East, has appointed Peter Webber (Girl With A Pearl) as president of the jury.
Gérard Depardieu will receive the Festival’s Career Award and actor Said Taghmaoui (La Haine) will receive the Omar Sharif Prize.
Hannibal Rising and Emperor Webber’s director told us, “It’s been a difficult year for many and especially for us in the film industry, but it’s vital not to forget that it’s our paintings that have entertained so many people. “encouraged and engaged while trapped in their homes or battling the greatest pandemic of human memory.
The fourth edition of the festival, which left its dates in early September due to the pandemic, will feature films named after Thomas Vinterberg’s label at Cannes 2020 Another Round, the Sundance hit by Viggo Mortensen, Venice Oasis and The Whaler Boy, Berlin Special Silver Bear Winner Delete History and Bad Tales, who won a silver bear per script. The opening will be the Venetian drama of Kaouther Ben Hania, The Man Who Sold His Skin.
Webber will preside over the narrative festival with Egyptian actor Asser Yassin (Messages of the Sea) among the jurors. Six prizes will be awarded as a component of the festival with 4 prize money for a total of $110,000.
The short film festival will be judged through Death On actor The Nile Ali Fazal (Victoria
The documentary feature film festival will be sworn in by documentary filmmaker Marianne Khoury (Let’s Talk), manufacturer Marie Pierre Macia, manufacturer Thierry Lenovel and documentary filmmaker Simon El Habre. .
The festival’s CineGouna platform for Egyptian and Arab filmmakers will award more than $180,000 in prize money at its CineGouna Platform Awards Ceremony on October 29, 2020.
A spokesman for the festival detailed to us the COVID protocols envisaged for the event: “As an annual sponsor of the Final Cut of the Venice International Film Festival, El Gouna will adhere to similar protocols effectively implemented in Venice this year. It has moved as outdoor locations and will operate at 50% of its capacity with another 4 inputs. Non-contact thermometer controls will be provided at the inputs, those with temperatures of 100F and above will not be allowed. 90-minute period between projections to disinfect and disinfect sites very well. Face mask is required at all times and social distance regulations will be imposed. Festival venues will have hand sanitist and mask on site. It has been expanded to 30 meters. Almost all paper curtains were transferred to electronic format. From Egypt, all foreign visitors will get PCR tests and festival-sponsored certificates. Certificates.
A complete review of the full protocols published locally last month.
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