Film Crews Trek to Diverse Locations in the Middle East and North Africa
variety.comRafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor With growing expert crews, eye-watering tax incentives and staggering locations, the Middle East is currently a bubbling cauldron of activity for film shoots.
From Hollywood blockbusters like Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” to regional epics like “Hajjan,” productions are making the most of the geographical diversity of the sprawling region while film commissions and studios offer a series of benefits to attract shoots to an increasingly competitive area.
Head of the Abu Dhabi Film Commission Sameer Al Jaberi highlights how the team was “on location for less than a week” for the first “Dune,” but returned for nearly a month for the sequel.
Epic Films founder Robbie McAree—a local producer for Villeneuve’s latest in Abu Dhabi—adds that such films “leave a lasting legacy, providing hands-on experience to local crew, who then apply [it] to future projects.
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