Original Story Published by: Egypt Today
CAIRO – 2 January 2018: Luxor African Film Festival management decided to add a new competition to its seventh edition for cinema students in Egypt.
The festival management announced special requirements to enter this competition. Firstly, any applicant should be studying cinema and living in Egypt. Secondly, the participating movie should be produced in 2017,its duration should not exceed 30 minutes and the deadline for submitting the movie is January 20.
The festival management announced that launching such competition is a must because Egyptian cinema students are currently producing extremely creative movies worth a special competition.
The president of the Luxor African Film Festival, Sayed Fouad, previously revealed that the seventh edition of the film festival will honour the veteran Egyptian actor GamilRateb and the renowned Senegalese director MoussaToure.
Rateb was born in Cairo in 1926. He first appeared on screen in 1946 in the film, “I Am the East”. After a 20-year breakfrom Egyptian cinema, Rateb later returned to the screens with the film "Al-Kaddab" (The Liar).
The iconic actor also appearedin French and Tunisian cinema. Rateb performed in a lot of distinguished international movies such as “Lawrence of Arabia”, “Trapeze” and “To commit a murder”, among others.
Toure was born in Senegal in 1958. In 1987, he established his production company named “Les Films du Crocodile” that funded a number of important documentaries. Toure released his successful first feature movie in 1991, entitled “Toubab Bi.”
In 2002, he launched Moussa Invite Film Festival which is a showcase for African documentaries. One of his important achievements was directing “La Pirogue” semi documentary movie in 2012.
The seventh annual Luxor African Film Festival will kick off on March 10, 2018. The poster of the festival will bear the face of the late African icon Nelson Mandela.
Fouad explained that he chose Mandela because his achievements are a symbol of struggle and contention for one’s homeland and the people who inhabit the African continent and the whole world. The seventh edition of the festival coincides with what would have been Mandela's centennial birthday; he was born in July 1918 and died in December 2013.
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