Screening of ‘Iran: The Hundred Year War’ on 29th October 2009
The Scene Club presented “Iran: The Hundred Year War” which took the viewers on a journey that will undoubtedly go beyond current events and discuss a century in the nation’s history. Wafa Tajdin the new member to The Scene Club team opened the event and introducing the main guest Olivier Mille the executive producer of the documentary to the club. Mr. Hussein Al Jaziri the President of the Rotary Club Jumeirah, Dubai hosted the Q&A session and closed the event. Olivier Mille was very proud to be able to show his documentary to the Middle East audience and found it very interesting to get their views on the feature. The Scene Club team were overwhelmed again with the amount of people turning up with hardly any spare seats left.
Nayla Al Khaja becomes a jury member at the Middle East International Film Festival
Nayla Al Khaja the founder of the Scene Club had the honor of being one of the jury members for the narrative feature film section headed by Abbas Kiarostami. Nayla had the grilling job of watching over twenty films both from the Middle East and internationally but also had the great pleasure of being so involved with the respectable film festival which included having stars such as Hilary Swank, Demi Moore and Akshay Kumar at the 10 day festival. Other jury members who worked very closely with Nayla included Sunil Doshi and Michael Fitzgerald. For more information on the film festival and the award winners please go to www.meiff.com
The Scene Club team goes to the world premier of “BLUE”
The Scene Club team made their way to Abu Dhabi on Wednesday October 14th to the world premier of “Blue”, like everyone their expectations were mixed. The opening started off with a small speech from Anthony D’Souza the director of the film who then welcomed on stage A.R Rahman, Lara Dutta, Akshay Kumar and others. However it seemed the most exciting part was when the cast and crew were presented compared to the film, which was an embarrassment to Indian Cinema.
Reshel Shah The Scene Club coordinator on the MEIFF opening night video
Reshel Shah was at the Middle East International Film Festival to support Nayla on the jury but also to support independent filmmaking from all over the world. The opening night showed the film “The traveler” directed by Ahmed Maher followed by the opening night party where Reshel was interviewed on what she expected to get out of MEIFF. Please click on the link below to find out her answer.
Ambassadors to the UAE came to support Peace One Day
The Scene Club was honored to have the presence of a number of Ambassadors to the UAE to support both the club and “Peace One Day”. The Ambassadors came along to watch the feature length documentary, the event also showed a small film before hand which had messages from Ambassadors on their take about Peace One Day.
The 24hrs Film Workshop III
The Scene Club will be doing their first workshop for this year. The workshop will have two tightly structured courses.
- Red Carpet Make-up
- Film 101 Producing
The courses will teach you a variety of skills but also give you the chance to meet industry professionals.
For more information please please click here
