El Gouna’s CineGouna Expands Industry Push: ‘We Want to Give Every Filmmaker a Chance’

El Gouna’s CineGouna Expands Industry Push: ‘We Want to Give Every Filmmaker a Chance’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 23, 2026 12:23pm PT El Gouna’s CineGouna Expands Industry Push: ‘We Want to Give Every Filmmaker a Chance’ By Essie Assibu Plus Icon Essie Assibu Latest Egyptian Screenwriter Mariam Naoum on the Struggle for Arab Series to Find Buyers: ‘We’re Suffocating Inside’ 1 day ago Sequel to Egyptian Hit ‘Sleepless Nights’ Eyes 2027 Shoot as New Details Revealed (EXCLUSIVE) 2 days ago Sharjah Film Festival Expands Opportunities for Young Filmmakers: ‘There Is No Shortage of Talent’ 2 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments More than 320 Arab film projects applied to CineGouna Funding this year, including more than 100 from Egypt, as the industry arm of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival drew submissions from across the region. At the festival’s ninth edition, running through Oct.

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23 on the Red Sea, CineGouna is adding new initiatives as it looks to fill gaps in the regional film landscape. The volume of Egyptian submissions alone prompted El Gouna to create Egyptian Voices, a new strand giving four additional local projects training in pitching, packaging and co-production.

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“In Egypt, we don’t have a national film fund, with 100 years of cinema history, more than 4,000 features,” he notes. Regional funds have helped fill some of that void, but Shawky says their resources can fluctuate, leaving filmmakers uncertain about available support.

At El Gouna this week, CineGouna Funding awarded more than $350,000 in cash and services, with 40 awards going to 16 of the 19 participating projects. Syrian filmmaker Rama Abdy’s documentary “House No.

7,” about three women building a refuge in Damascus, won the $15,000 CineGouna Platform Award for a project in post-production. Algerian filmmaker Zoulikha Tahar’s “Paradise Beach,” previously selected for Berlinale Talents, took the $15,000 award for a project in development.

Sudanese filmmaker Marwa Zein’s “Lily’s Makkah,” her first fiction feature after the documentary “Khartoum Offside,” received a €10,000 grant, post-production support and an invitation to Durban FilmMart. The participating projects also held more than 140 one-on-one meetings with companies, institutions and international festivals.

CineGouna’s work extends beyond financing. CineGouna Emerge, its program for emerging filmmakers and film professionals from Egypt, the Arab world and Africa, focuses on access.

Egyptian filmmaker, producer and programmer Hayat Aljowaily , who heads Emerge, recalls that the program initially focused on covering the costs of bringing participants to El Gouna. But getting newcomers through the door did not necessarily give them the confidence or connections to navigate a film festival.

“Year after year, we realized that access alone wasn’t enough, and that we had to create an environment and carve out a space for these participants,” she explains. “It’s about creating a community,” she goes on.

Emerge has since added mentorship, workshops, industr

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