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Catherine Martin has worked with Baz Luhrmann for 30 years and the costume and production designer says that each project offers up its own unique set of challenges that make her feel like she's doing her "doctorate in film studies all over again."  Stepping into Deadline's Red Sea Studio at the Red…

For In The Shadow of Beirut, first-time filmmaker Stephen Gerard Kelly spent five years living among the film's four featured families in the Sabra and Shatila neighborhoods outside Beirut as it became engulfed in economic and political crisis following a 1982 massacre.  "I never set out to make a…

Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival launched its third edition on Thursday evening with a characteristically starry red carpet featuring the likes of Michelle Williams, Johnny Depp, Sharon Stone and Will Smith. The kick-off had more of a local feel than the first two editions, however, with an…

Andrew Dominik shared his thoughts on the unexpected backlash against his Marilyn Monroe drama Blonde during an In-Conversation event at the Red Sea International Film Festival on Sunday. The feature, starring Ana de Armas as the tragic, iconic actress, divided critics when it world premiered at the…

With the Red Sea Film Festival well underway, global execs have descended in Jeddah to suss out the potential of the Saudi Arabian market and one key figure at the coalface of these conversations is MBC Studios' Senior Manager of Content, Ali Jaafar.  The exec, who heads up the feature film division…