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Friday, August 10, 2007

Another Middle Eastern film festival is born


A hundred miles south of that other super-endowed festival in Dubai, the Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi is starting to ramp up for their October debut. The city prides itself as “the richest in the world” and the fest will fly in and house filmmakers in the Emirates Palace (pictured), a $3 billion luxury hotel, where all fest screening and panels will happen. MEIFF hired Jon Fitzgerald as their programmer. Fest regulars know Jon as the co-founder Slamdance and he programmed AFI and Santa Barbara film fests.  (Mike Jones)

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