{"id":29374,"date":"2020-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/arab-filmmaker-masterclass-free\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"arab-filmmaker-masterclass-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/arab-filmmaker-masterclass-free\/","title":{"rendered":"The Region’s Best Arab Filmmakers Are Offering Free Masterclasses"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>ocial distancing measures seemed to bring all creative industries to a halt<\/span> in the first few weeks of quarantine<\/span>. But with,\u00a0<\/span>the art world has shown its resilience. Rather than reaching a comp<\/span>l<\/span>ete standstill, <\/span>creative industries <\/span>have <\/span>simply <\/span>taken a new, digital form<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now the <\/span>Arab film industry<\/a> is the latest to <\/span>follow suit.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an effort to connect filmmakers<\/a> and film buffs, The Royal Film Commission of Jordan has just launched its first <\/span>digital <\/span>initiative, \u2018Tallat\u2019<\/span>, a<\/span> virtual masterclass <\/span>hosted by <\/span>the region\u2019s top filmmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to want to sign up<\/span> \u2013 <\/span>the roster is impressive. <\/span>Both <\/span>Bassel Ghandour, the Jordanian <\/span>scriptwriter behind<\/span> The Hurt Locker<\/span><\/i>, and Palme d\u2019Or nominee Abu Bakr Shawky (who directed <\/span>Yomeddine<\/span><\/i>) are already on board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Legendary Egyptian screenwriter Mariam Naoum, who is behind the 2019 film, <\/span>Between Two Seas<\/span><\/i>, and Jordanian producer and director Rule Nasser, who was behind <\/span>Scales, <\/span><\/i>are also on the roster.<\/span><\/p>\n

The masterclass takes place on Zoom<\/span>. <\/span>In case you\u2019ve missed <\/span>any of <\/span>them, you can watch them all <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social distancing measures seemed to bring all creative industries to a halt in the first few weeks of quarantine. But with,\u00a0the art world has shown its resilience. Rather than reaching a complete standstill, creative industries have simply taken a new, digital form. And now the Arab film industry is the latest to follow suit. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4190],"tags":[6266,10999,7011,4202,6242,6914,7823,5708,12871,12872,11233,8484],"primary_tag":[11867],"ppma_author":[4226],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":4226,"user_id":16,"is_guest":0,"slug":"milleteam","display_name":"Mille Team","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3efa852a4a27023eb0b89acfd128ed1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29374"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=29374"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=29374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}