Work-In-Progress Showcase
Six films in post-production are selected to be part of this year’s Work-In-Progress Showcase. The rough cuts will be presented to the Red Sea Souk industry guests in a series of private screenings in the presence of the director and producer.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS 2022 – SOUK SELECTION
Banel e Adama
Directed by: Ramata-Toulaye Sy
(France, Senegal, Mali)
Concrete Land
Directed by: Asmahan Bkerat
(Jordan)
Hounds
Directed by: Kamal Lazraq
(France, Morocco, Belgium)
Jewfro
Directed by: Jack Markovitz
(South Africa)
The Burdened
Directed by: Amr Gamal
(Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia)
The Mother of All Lies
Directed by: Asmae El Moudir
(Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt)
The Red Sea Souk organizes a showcase for films in post-production with the aim to support the completion of five to six feature films by directors of African or Arab origins, to enhance the overall quality of the film and to foster their international distribution.
The Work-In-Progress Showcase will take place in Jeddah from December 2 – 5, 2023, at the Red Sea Souk, the film market of the Red Sea International Film Festival.
All selected Work-In-Progress projects will compete for the Red Sea Souk Awards supported by the Red Sea Fund, to be granted by the Work-In-Progress Showcase Jury. The awards consist of:
– Red Sea Souk Post-Production Award worth 30,000 USD
– Red Sea Souk Special Mention Award worth 10,000 USD
WORK-IN-PROGRESS JURY
Giona A. Nazzaro (Zurich, 1965). Artistic Director of Locarno Film Festival. Former General Delegate of Venice International Film Critic’s Week (2016-2020). Member of the Artistic Team of IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019-2020). Programmer and curator for Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland (2010-2019). Former member of the selection team of the Festa del cinema di Roma–Rome International Film Festival (2012-2015), Med Film Festival (2013-2019), Festival dei Popoli (2008-2011), Torino Film Festival (2003-2006).
Professor of Media Design and Multimedia Arts at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (2018-2020).
Member of the SNCCI (Union of Italian film critics), journalist and writer. Author of many books and essays on Hong Kong Cinema, postmodern action films and contemporary documentary, contributes regularly for the newspaper il manifesto and weekly Film Tv. Critic in chief for monthly music magazine Rumore.
Curated the art exhibition Il di/segno del cinema – The De/Sign of Cinema (Cagliari, Italy) (2015). Author, his first collection of fiction short stories has been published in 2010.
With Divines, her first feature film, Houda Benyamina won the Caméra d’or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes and won three César awards, including Best First Film in 2017.
After spending some time in the United States where she directed a pilot for a series, she joined forces with Damien Chazelle and directed two episodes of the series The Eddy (Netflix).
In 2022, Houda Benyamina presented Salam, which she co-directed with Diam’s and Anne Cissé, at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Official Selection. She is currently in the midst of preparing the shoot for her second feature film.
Yasmine Benkiran is a film director and a screenwriter who grew up on the Moroccan Atlantic coast. She studied philosophy and communication sciences in Paris and made her first experiences in Buenos Aires, San Francisco and London before entering French national film school La Femis in the screenwriting workshop (l’atelier scenario).
As a screenwriter, Yasmine writes for both television and cinema. She also wrote two books about Morocco and a historical series of podcasts about Alice Guy, the world’s first female director.
In 2018, Yasmine directed the short film, WINTER TIME (Tangier IFF, Off-courts Trouville). QUEENS, her debut feature film premiered at Venice Film Festival 2022 (International Film Critics’ Week).