MEIFF pics: Dinners, luncheons, and pitching a winner
Film Financing Circle Director Adrienne Biggs with MEIFF's Jon Fitzgerald and Djeneba Diaby at a charity dinner. Big Jim McKay from Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" watches over their shoulder, eating a shoe.
A table of filmmakers at one of the many MEIFF luncheons: John Hollingsworth ("Desert Heat"), Erik Rosenluno ("Looking Glass"), Elizabeth Merre and Oliver Pont (MEIFF award winner "Manon on the Pavement"), Maryam Mohajer ("And Life Went On"), Babak Naraghi, Hisham Zaman ("Bawke"), Nicholas Kallincus ("The Luminary").
Soman Chainani, pitching his project "Love Marriage" to the judges. He would later share first place and a $13,500 cash prize. (AED50,000).
The guys behind a new Abu Dhabi film school, New York Film Academy's John Sammon and Michael Young. They had just finished touring the schoo's new, two-story facility.
The closing night party for the Film Financing Circle at the Shangri-La Hotel.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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