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‘Land of Fear’ Director Blames Producer for Depriving his Film of Oscar ContestEgyptian director Daoud Abdel Sayyed confirmed that “the backward and the chaotic way of administration of the Production Company “Shua’a” was behind depriving his film Ard al Khawf (Land of Fear) of competing in the American Oscar prizes contest.“The company neglected the nomination of my film by the Oscar committee and did not meet the basic condition for the contest by screening the film commercially in the US. It did not also distribute the film’s video cassettes or CD’s among the committee members,” the director told AFP on Monday. He considered the “backward production mentality of the company executives as the reason behind wasting a valuable opportunity for the Arab cinema to take part in the competition and the possibility for opening the American market for the Arab cinema productions.” For his part, the cinema critic Ashraf Bayyoumi attributed the failure to participate in the contest to the “governmental agencies and private corporations despite the demands by all those concerned with the film to provide full support for it in order not to deprive the Egyptian and Arab cinema of this opportunity.” Earlier, the Oscar Awards Administration announced the nomination of the following films after excluding dozens of foreign non-English films. These included the French film Masir Emily Polan (Emily Polan Destiny), Indian film Monsen Wedding, Brazilian film Sun Creation, Mexican film Your Mother Too and the Bosnian film I Do not Satisfy Anybody. However, the films nominated for the Oscar won many prizes at various festivals. The film Ard al Khawf (Land of Fear) costarring Ahmed Zaki and the Jordanian actress Farah won many important international prizes including Damascus festival golden award two years ago and the Silver Pyramid award at Cairo festival. Oscar prizes will be handed out to the winners at the concluding ceremony, which will be held on March 24, 2004 -- cdc0d6.com 8- Get CarterTagline: The truth hurts.This remake of the 1971 Mike Hodges thriller, Sylvester Stallone Production Execs Say Laila Ulwi Making BombsEgypt’s Information Production City execs believe that Laila Ulwi is making bombs.Yusra to Play ‘Queen Farida’Egyptian screenwriter Mageda Khairallah has wrapped up scripting the film al Malikah Farida (Queen Farida) which actress Yusra has been tapped to play the starring role in.Yousef Shahin to Convey Arabs’ Vision in Film ‘September 11’Egyptian director Yousef Shahin is the only Arab participant in the French production in which ten world directors are shooting short narrative films about September 11 attacks.For First Time… Yusra and Fakhrani Meet in ‘Ahibbak Tani’Yussra and Yahya al-Fakhrani will costar, for the first time, in the movie “Ahibbak Tani” (I Love you again),Daoud Abdel Sayyed: I Tackled Sex Without Coverage by LoveDaoud Abdel Sayyed is a controversial director who has been accused of courting the box office through excessive sex scenes in his new film Muwaten, Mukhber wa Harami.Syrian Mohammed Malass to Direct Egyptian FilmSyrian director Mohammed Malass will begin next November shooting his film Otlet Radwan (Radwan’s Holiday), marking his debut in the Egyptian cinemaYahya Al Fakhrani Stipulates: Censors Not to Interfere in ‘King Farouq’The Egyptian TV has included Yahya Al Fakhrani's series on the life of late king Farouq, within its production plan. But censors have their own remarks on the script. |
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