An aspiring Emirati film director spent her summer in Paris learning about the art of making movies at the most rewarded film school in the world. Khuloud Al Ali, 34, a graphic designer for Dubai TV, was joined by three Kuwaitis, one Bahraini and two Qataris for an intensive five-week series of classes at La Fémis film school, last month.
She came back to the UAE with what she says were tantalising insights into the process of directing, scriptwriting and producing.
The classes were the result of a collaboration between the French Embassy and oil company Total. They were conducted by renowned French film directors Thierry Boscheron and Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, among others.
“Meeting people working in the film industry was an eye-opener for us, to see how the industry really works – from directing actors to how to meet the cast”, says Al Ali. “It was an intense glimpse of everything.”
Al Ali, from Sharjah, was not a complete beginner to filmmaking. After graduating as an architect and realising it wasn’t the right career for her, she spent a year at Cartoon Network’s Animation Academy at twofour54 in Abu Dhabi and realised animated comedy was her real passion.
When the Gulf filmmakers were tasked with making a short fiction film at La Fémis, and given a choice of scripts to adapt, it was no surprise that Al Ali chose to draw on her skills as an animator to give her chosen script a twist.
Original article by Jessica Hill
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