SPONSORS
The 2nd Sydney Arab Film Festival is hosted by Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) and driven by a volunteer organizing committee. ICE aims to support the Sydney Arab Film Festival into an independently managed annual event in the coming years.
Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) is proud to host the 2nd
Sydney Arab Film Festival.
In the current political climate, under which negative stereotypes of
Arabs once again circulate in abundance, this cultural event provides
a space for diverse audiences to constructively engage with films
focusing on the Arab world and diaspora. In New South Wales, Arabic is
the second most spoken language after English, and yet Arabic
self-expression needs a much higher profile within Australian film and
television culture.
Supporting and promoting dialogue in the arena of cultural production
is central to ICE’s work with grass-roots communities. In recent
years, ICE has worked with artists, emerging communities and Arabic
young people to develop new work in digital arts and multimedia. We
are committed to supporting the Festival in becoming a sustainable and
independent entity. The Festival fills an enormous gap in Sydney’s
cultural landscape.
Lena Nahlous
Director, ICE & SWITCH
Many thanks to our sponsors and supporters!
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SHOOKRAN AND THANKS
Research for films was done with the help of many individuals and
organisations.
Special thanks to :
for locating titles from all over the Arab world – Zeina Zahreddine, Cynthia Shoucair and Hania Mroueh
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MESHWAR and THE BEST OF TIMES: brought to you with thanks from SABBAH
MEDIA -Sabbah Media Corporation – Sadek Sabbah
..né.à Beyrouth, Festival du Film Libanais – Pierre Sarraf
Arab Film Distribution – Ryan Anne Davis
Pyramide Films – Paul Richre- 9th Annual Arab Film Festival – Sonia El-Feki
- CinemaEast Film Festival – Rasha Salti
- Dubai Women’s College – Bernard Purcell
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Jayce Salloum
- Ziad Nawfal at CD TECH
- Mec Film – Irit Neidhartd
Khalil Smayra ALBA —- Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
Alexander Weilsmann – Premiers Department
Fadle el Harris – Filmotion- Tony Ishak – World Media
Anthony Alam – Arabic Pages
Ahmad Salim – Al-Nahar newspaper
Hoyts – Justin Gross, Claire Linder, especially Fiona Pulford- Campbelltown Arts Centre Staff
- Micheline Khoury
- Fransisco Fisher
- Jason Lewis
- Bankstown Council – Christopher Hudson
- Doug Anderson
Amy Wooding – Office of Film and Literature Classification
All the staff at Information & Cultural Exchange- Christine Tohme and Walid Raad – Ashkal Alwan – Association Libanaise des Arts Plastiques
- especially Daniela Flaxl
Thanks to many others for many other things: