The 7th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival is now accepting submissions. The film festival will take place November 10-13, 2011 at the historic Heights Theatre in the Twin Cities Metro Area (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN). The Twin Cities Arab Film Festival is the largest and longest-running in the Upper Midwest.
The Twin Cities Arab Film Festival is presented by Mizna, an Arab arts organization whose mission is to promote Arab and Arab American culture, providing a forum for its expression. Mizna also produces an award-winning literary journal, as well as theatrical and visual arts events.
The 6th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival in March 2010 was highly successful and featured area premieres of Garbage Dreams, Pomegranates and Myrrh, Les Barons, Ein Shams, Gaza on the Air, Laila's Birthday, a children's film segment from Al Jazeerah, and much more. You can see the full schedule here: http://www.mizna.org/arabfilmfest10/.
Read the submission details below, and please consider sharing your work with us!
Sincerely,
Marya Morstad, Mizna's Arab Film Festival Director
Lana Barkawi, Mizna's Executive and Artistic Director
Call for Films for the Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
The festival is seeking narratives, documentaries, experimental films, and animated films, both feature-length and shorts, by and/or about Arabs and Arab Americans.
We welcome your entries and inquiries, and thank you in advance if you have already submitted your film this year, or in past years. If your film is not ready yet, do consider us in the future. Please forward on and spread the word through the Arab film community!
Our deadline for entries is August 15, 2011.
Please send a DVD preview copy, filmmaker contact, and any relevant background information on your film to our address below. Upon selection, we will need additional publicity and marketing materials for your film for our program catalog and media releases.
Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
Mizna
2205 California Street, NE, Suite 109A
Minneapolis, MN 55418
612-788-6920
mizna@mizna.org
http://mizna.org
Introducing Our New Film Festival Curator!
Rami Azzazi
is originally from Alexandria, Egypt, and has been in the US since 1995. This is his third year on the film festival committee, and he is a board member at Mizna. He has a degree in Global Studies, with a focus on the Middle East, and a minor in Cinema Studies and Media Culture from the University of Minnesota. He has also participated in local film projects.
News from Local Filmmakers!
The Twin Cities Arab Film Festival's former curator Mohannad Ghawanmeh, starred in and produced Dan Tanz's debut independent feature, Triumph67, which won an Honorable Mention at this year's Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival.
Award-winning filmmaker Hisham Bizri recently received a Doha Film Institute production grant for his screenplay, Until Morning, which won the 2010 Special Jury Prize at the Cairo International Film Festival. Until Morning is in production, and due to be shot on location in Beirut in 2012. His short film, called A Film, recently toured the global film fest circuit. Mizna has showcased Bizri's films in 2005 and 2010.
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