The Arab British Centre Presents:
THE FRIDAY FORUM
Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema | BOOK NOW
Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema kicks off with a discussion forum with internationally renowned experts, industry figures and academics.
The Friday Forum takes popular histories of Arab Cinema as a starting point, and will bring together internationally renowned experts and leaders from both the academic world and the film industry to debate the past, present and the future of Arab Cinema as a cultural form:
15:00 – 15:45: POPULAR ARAB CINEMA — ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES
Speakers:
Dr Viola Shafik, freelance filmmaker, curator and the author of Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (1999) and Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation (2007) in conversation with
Dr Dina Matar, Head of the Centre of Media and Film Studies at SOAS, University of London, editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
15:45-16:40: ARAB CINEMA IN THE UK — THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
Speakers:
Jason Wood, Director of Programming for the Curzon Cinema Group
Mona Deeley, Founding Director of Zenith Foundation
Ali Jaafar, Executive Director of Quinta Communications’ independent film division and Programmer, London Film Festival.
Chaired by Omar Kholeif, Curator of Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema
17:00-18:00: ARAB CINEMA — IN PRACTICE
Speakers:
Hussein Fahmy, Egyptian screen icon and star of Watch Out for Zouzou (1971)
Philippe Aractingi, Lebanese film director of Bosta (2005) and Under the Bombs (2007)
Khalid Abdalla, British/Egyptian actor and star of United 93 (2006) and The Kite Runner (2007)
Chaired by Brian Whitaker, Former Middle East Editor of The Guardian and author of What’s Really Wrong with the Middle East (2009)
Friday 21 September 2012 | 15:00-18:00
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Tickets £5 (no concessions)\ICA members free | Book online or call the ICA box office on 020 7930 3647
The event is part of the Arab British Centre’s Project:
Image above: still from Stray Bullet (2009)