Wildlife filmmaker Jonathan Ali Khan explains why regional broadcasters must invest more in natural history content in the Arab worldThe resistance from regional broadcasters to produce good natural history content...
Syrias political turmoil is no deterrent for the flag bearers of the nations popular drama production industry. Tapping into the surging demand, the content creators shift base to Abu Dhabi...
Aisha Abdullah.Encouraged by training, government-funded incentive schemes and exposure through film festivals in the UAE, more Emiratis are taking to filmmaking. BroadcastProME speaks to two Emirati...
Paris-based actor-director, Karim Goury talks about The Man Inside, an experimental documentary. The 50-minute autobiographical film is shot entirely in a hotel room in Kuwait City Karim...
twofour54 will launch a free creative workshop programme called the Creative Campus at this years Middle East FILM & COMIC CON. Open to all, the twofour54 Creative Campus is central...
Toy Story characters.Al Jazeera Children's Channel (JCC) has announced a new free TV agreement with Disney, Middle East and North Africa (MENA).JCC has acquired the rights...
Driver Dans Story Train has started airing on Cartoon Network Arabics preschool block, Cartoonito. Known in Arabic as Captain Karim wa Qitar Al Hekayat, Driver Dans Story Train is an original...
Produced by 3Line Media in association with twofour54, and Blink Studios, Driver Dans Story Train is a children's CGI-animated (Computer Generated Imagery) story series about a loveable train driving lion.The...
Tim Kennedy at Dubai Creek.Armed with a small camcorder, filmmaker and academician Tim Kennedy goes every week to Dubai Creek to capture the sights and sounds...
From strategic outreach programmes across the region to partnering with global film institutions, the DIFF team has played a significant part in putting Arab cinema on the global mapThe ninth...
BEST DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION IN ARABICABDALLAH EL BINNI, AL JAZEERA NETWORKAbdallah El Binni, Al Jazeera NetworkAbdallah El Binni is an investigative journalist who has produced and directed...
MOST DYNAMIC MENA SI IN AFRICASONY PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICASony Professional Solutions MEASony has undertaken several projects in Africa with Tigrai and ERTA in...
MENA SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR OF THE YEARTEK SIGNALSTek SignalsThis systems integrator is one of the few that has managed to secure several Middle East telco and broadcast...
ASBU ME 2012 TECHNICAL ACHIEVERMark BillingeMark Billinge, VP of Broadcast Operations and Technology OSNMark Billinge managed a team of more than 100 people across various departments...
BEST STUDIO OF THE YEARDubai Media Inc.Dubai Media Inc.DMI moved aggressively towards a full HD tapeless environment this year and spearheaded this move by upgrading one...
PIONEERING CONTRIBUTION TO BROADCAST TECHNOLOGYFadi KahhalehFadi Kahhaleh Fadi Kahhaleh (right) is a young Jordanian who works for US media solutions provider ONE MEDIA. Fadi Kahhaleh was...
MENA BROADCAST TRENDSETTERSKY NEWS ARABIASky News ArabiaThe judges were unanimous in their decision for this category. Sky News Arabia is the first news channel to broadcast...
BEST HD PRODUCTION OF THE YEARThe Turtle: FQC Media, Big Features and FilmworksThe Turtle: FQC Media, Big Features and FilmworksThe Turtle was...
BEST SPORTS COVERAGEOSNOSNOSN raised the bar for sport way back in 2007 when it first acquired the rights to the English Premier League. Since then, it...
Du-DatamenaDu, although a relative newcomer to the telco market, has been leading from the front in terms of aggressively moving forward with new ventures especially within broadcast. Du has implemented...
The team from YahLive (Mohamed Youssif, CEO, far right in pic) and SES (Edgar Milic, General Manager Business Development MENA, far left in pic).YahLive &...
Eng. SALEH AL MEGHAILEETHDEPUTY MINISTER OF ENGINEERING AFFAIRS,MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION, SAUDI ARABIAEng. SALEH AL MEGHAILEETHDEPUTY MINISTER OF ENGINEERING AFFAIRS, MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION,...
Sanford Jewett, VP of Marketing, ThurayaThurayaMore than 52 journalists have been killed this year while working in war zones. As viewers demand to watch news as...
MENA SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDTVSDC/QATAR TVTVSDC/ Qatar TVThe multi-million dollar investment undertaken across the board by Qatars Television Support Development Committee (TVSDC) to build new facilities...
Khalid Ahmed Balkheyour President & CEO, ARABSATARABSATArabsat recently began the first tests for HbbTV in the MENA region. From its initiatives with regional organisations for the...
The panelistsNick Grande, Managing Director of ChannelSculptor, who moderated this panel discussion, summed it up for BroadcastPro METhis years CEO panel had the distinction that all...
Jane Williams, Director - Film Connection & Film ForumOn training programmes, cash awards and outreach towards the larger Arab market for filmmakersWe have been organising Interchange...
Telcos and Broadcasters panelists at ASBU BroadcastPro ME Summit 2012Jamal Bnari, who moderated this discussion, is an Emirati national, who has worked for years in the...
George Max Trummler49 teams battled it out last month to secure top spot at the second edition of the 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP) in Dubai....
Left: Charles El Soueidi, MD, head of post production and music composer at SoundStruck and right, Elvis Garagic, producer, chief engineer and music composer.Two months ago,...
Christian Jankowski and his filming CrewWhat happens when a German contemporary artist arrives in Dubai to meet an Emirati art curator, with a camera and wearing...
Yusuf Thakur, FilmmakerPatience, passion and perseverance are the qualities required to venture into the world of natural history and wildlife filmmaking. Broadcast Pro met with Yusuf...
Jacques Mulder.Amidst the boom of corporate films and commercials shot on location in Dubai, there are also stories that need to be told. One girl had...
Abdallah El Binni.Al Jazeera Documentary has produced a new hard-hitting and innovative production, The Imam and the Colonel, using 2D and 3D animation. The documentary investigates...
Saleh Nass and Chaker Ben Yahmed with a member of their crew.They started out with a laptop, two hard disks, and a dream. Today, Bahraini director...
Hayley Doyle meets up with Hazem Amin, founder and managing director of TreeHouse, a Dubai-based production house that offers professional helicam servicesAs new production houses begin to mushroom in an...
Director Aws Al Sharqi.The second season of Hindistani, a popular Saudi comedy series that includes a Bollywood-style song-and-dance sequence is being shown on OSN Yahala as...
Nadia Eliewat and Fadi G HaddadBroadcastPro Middle East meets up with two Jordanian filmmakers as they put the final touches to their first feature film When...
BroadcastPro Middle East takes an exclusive tour of the hottest new audio production house in DubaiEarly this year, Dubai became home to...
Lack of funding from the regions TV industry is curtailing the production of local natural...
Using a Canon 5D, a rising star in...
discusses Foley, one of the most important aspects of sound in film, and one that is often overlooked in productionIn dramas and character...
In the second part of this series, Supriya Srinivias speaks to a motley team of people involved in the 48-hour Film Project on different levelsForty eight hours is an unforgiving...
The 48-hour film project saw aspiring filmmakers and industry professionals gather together on November 24 to celebrate the winning projects of this two-day endeavour. In the first part of this...
Students from the Department of Media and Communications, Manipal University, Dubai, in an exclusive partnership with BroadcastPro ME, bring you the highlights from some of the key panel discussions at...
Hindistani, OSNs first home production secured the award for Best Arabic Drama at the ASBU BroadcastPro awards that were held in...
Sky News Arabia, the 24-hour Arabic language multi-platform breaking news service, has launched a weekly video blog on its website called Diary of a...
Filming a big budget film is a task in itself. Having to shoot in a country, where a revolution breaks out unexpectedly and sweeps through the entire Arab world like...
Ben Bocquelet is a busy man. The second series of his animated show The Amazing World of Gumball is already in production and its first series is about to debut...
BBCs Wild Arabia team was in Abu Dhabi recently to shoot its first major TV series on wildlife in the Arab world. Producer Chadden Hunter shares exclusive production notes with...
In an exclusive interview, Azza Aboul Magd talks to BroadcastPro Middle East about switching gears from advertising executive to executive producer on an independent...
Dubai-based post production house Blink Studios recently upgraded its facility with a...
Real Image Production has recently made several strategic moves aimed at giving it a greater international presence while also enabling it to focus on developing 3D stereoscopic animation projects from...
The 2011 edition of the Gulf Film Festival (GFF), a platform launched four years ago to give Arab filmmakers a more intimate space to screen their...
The Arab HDTV Group, an independent entity founded by some key broadcast players in the Middle East, held its fourth annual...
Cars exploded, windshields crashed, and people ran with sticks, knives and fire bottles as parents tried to secure their children. As a family...
One would assume that when undertaking a stereoscopic 3D project, the team will be conceptualising their ideas in 3D.And yet, the reason for the notoriety associated with Stereoscopic 3D or...
BroadcastPro ME brings you an exclusive report on how Abu Dhabi-based twofour54 intaj successfully undertook its first production management assignment outside the UAEWhen the 20th edition of the Gulf Cup...
Dubai-based Iranian filmmaker Mahshid Zamani recently produced UAE: 350 Maybe Less, a 25-minute environmental awareness documentary.UAE: 350 Maybe Less was produced to make UAE residents more conscious of their excessive...
Eight aspiring filmmakers were sent to the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, where they undertook a screenwriting workshop and worked with mentors such as writer and director Ruba Nadda and...
