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Glitter Dust in Bulgaria – Sofia Middle East and North Africa Film Festival

Posted on January 25, 2013 by gdfilm

This is the Blugarian premeiere of Glitter Dust: Fidning Art in Dubai at the Sofia Middle East & North Africa Region Film Festival (Sofia MENAR)!

Glitter Dust screens Monday, January 28th at 7:45 PM.

It’s such an honor to be showing our film along with the films of some of my favorite directors: Abbas Kiarostami, Hany Abu-Assad, Bahman Ghobadi, Pelin Esmer, and so many others.

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Glitter Dust at Brisbane International Film Festival

Posted on November 14, 2012 by gdfilm

Our co-director boarded a plane a couple of days ago, for today is the opening night of the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) where Glitter Dust: Fidning Art in Dubai will have its Australian premiere. And for those who cannot go, we promise to bring back baby koalas! In eucalyptus-lined steamer trunks so they will be very comfortable.

Glitter Dust screens this Sunday, November 18th at 11:45 AM. We’re really pleased Glitter Dust has been programmed with The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story. The film tells of a library director and a group of dedicated bibliophiles saving ancient Islamic manuscripts under artillery shells and sniper fire. Such an interesting complement to all that glitters in Dubai and underneath, the universal struggle to nourish art and culture.

The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story, left and Glitter Dust: Finding Art in Dubai, right.

Glitter Dust at Red Wasp Film Festival

Posted on October 26, 2012 by gdfilm

We’re very honored to be screening our film in at the 10th annual Red Wasp Film Festival in Texas! Many thank yous to Krista May and the Brazos Progressives for their sponsorship and support. And to Danielle of the Brazos Dance Collective, who served as a consultant on the film. Of course it’s an honor just to be nominated but we really, really, really want one of those red wasp awards. Coolest trophy ever. Just look how happy it makes people:

Glitter Dust: Finding Art in Dubai is showing Saturday, October 27th at 7:30 pm at Stage Center Theater (201-B W. 26th St.) in downtown Bryan, TX.

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Carmel Mooncakes

Posted on October 11, 2012 by gdfilm

Glitter Dust: Finding Art in Dubai received a good luck moon cake for our US premiere at the Carmel Art and Film Festival. We screen today 10/11/12 at 2:00 at the Golden Bough Playhouse!

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Glitter Dust: US Premiere at Carmel Art & Film Festival

Posted on September 27, 2012 by gdfilm

Great news: Glitter Dust: Finding Art in Dubai is getting its US premiere at the Carmel Art & Film Festival! It’s an honor to be at such an innovative festival that combines art shows with cinema. What a perfect fit for a film about life and art from the Middle East and beyond. Keep checking our site and CA&FF for information about showtimes and special events. We’re so excited to get a chance to meet the amazing filmmakers, the dedicated CA&FF team, special honoree Cloris Leachman, and of course Clint and Dina Eastwood! We devour your show, Mrs. Eastwood.

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Glitter Dust in the UAE National Film Library and Archive

Posted on September 4, 2012 by gdfilm

Glitter Dust: Finding Art in Dubai has been selected to be in the UAE National Film Library and Archive. As a film archivist in a former life, the UAE National Film Library is near to my heart, and it’s an honor to be included. The library and archive will include films by Emerati filmmakers, as well as films “about the UAE and/or produced by UAE residents and corporations.”

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DCA <--> DXB

Posted on August 27, 2012 by gdfilm

A city can get into you. It’s a basic need to be tied to land. And if your land is concrete or in the sky, that becomes part of you. Both of my films have been about places full of glass steel that reach to the sky. I remember coming back from Dubai to my hometown, Washington DC, and being so shocked that the Washington Monument was so small. It looked like a nubbin. And now a year later, I have a feeling that the monument has grown taller. It really has, but only an idea that grows inside of me. We’re getting ready for the fall film fest season, time to leave DC again and share Dubai with you!

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Dubai Forever

Posted on July 23, 2012 by gdfilm

Gérard Courant’s new film, Dubai For Ever:

Featuring: Abdulhamid Juma, Sheila Baldago-Tobias, Mohamed Idris Moosa, Salah Sermini, Rola Shamas, Francesco Cabras, Samira Mesbahi, Essam Zakarea, Delphine Garde-Mroueh, Marie-Eve Dubois, Hauvick Habechian, Tarek Boussaha, Bashar Ibrahem, Subhy Otry, Sear Rashiq, Rawaa Kalassina, Georges Yazbeck, Bassam Al-Thawadi, Masoud Amralla Al Ali, Walid Al Awadi, Ramy A. Razek, Shimaa Bakr Othman, Pratiti Vadhar, Haya Obaid, Katy Chang, J.R. Osborn, Grzegorz Jaroszuk, Hoda Kerbage, Sahim Omar Kalifa, Fareed Rämadan, Wasia Pasha, Abdullah Boushahri, Nouf Al Hammadi, Amjad Abu Al-Ala, Mohammed Jassim, Osama Al Saif, Kirpal Singh Mankotia

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Sold Out

Posted on July 10, 2012 by gdfilm

Glitter Dust: Finding Art in Dubai’s Friday July 13th screening is sold out! We’re all out of passes, so get your tickets!

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JIFF Withdraws Two Films

Posted on July 5, 2012 by gdfilm

When we heard that 2 films were withdrawn from JIFF, we were like, “inquiring minds (ok, nosy busy bodies) want to know!” Is there some sort of scandal?! As it turns out, it’s good news: Isreali films The Cutoff Man and Fill the Void were accepted into the venable 69th Venice Film Festival! Congratulations! And so they had to withdraw from JIFF, pesky premiere statuses and all. JIFF is very gracious about the entire thing, and slotted two interesting films in their place – Bernie and 7 Days in Havana. If this means we get to watch Richard Linklater, Benicio del Toro, Shirley MacLaine, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, and so on and so on, we will suffer gladly. At the end of the day it’s about making and supporting great films and everyone (The Cutoff Man and Fill the Void teams, JIFF and Venice) succeeded.