Documentary Voices Pulling Focus in Dubai
Posted by By ifvc at 9 July, at 19 : 04 PM Print
The First Documentary Voices Pulling Film Festival was held in Dubai from July 4th to 9th. Anisa Mehdi, a distinguished journalist and both a producer and director of films, is the artistic director, and Mahshid Zamani is managing director of this newborn festival. More than thirty filmmakers were invited and participated in this four-day event. Among them were Niki Karimi, Jafar Panahi, and Kamran Shirdel from Iran; Amer Alzuhair from Kuwait; Philip Bajjaly and Hadi Zaccak from Lebanon; and Danny Schechter and Bahman Maghsoudlou from the USA. The latter two also served on the jury
