75East Signs ‘You Will Die At 20’ & ‘Goodbye Julia’ Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based global management and production company 75East has signed Sudanese writer-director and producer Amjad Abu Alala.
The director first broke out internationally with debut film You Will Die At 20, which won Venice’s Luigi de Laurentiis Award for Best First Feature in 2019.
He was among a wave of filmmakers to emerge out of Sudan in the wake of its 2019 revolution, ending the 30-year rule of dictator Omar al-Bashir, although hopes for a democratic, civil society have since been shattered by the civil war involving two rival military factions.
You Will Die At 20 was shot in Sudan in December 2018 in the early days of the popular uprising against, with the struggles of the film’s protagonist described as a metaphor for the Sudanese people’s fight for democracy.
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