Lebanese Producer Georges Schoucair Talks Stressful But Productive 2024 Wrapping Two Movies & Launching A Cinema Against Backdrop Of War
deadline.comProducing an independent film is a challenge at the best of times: Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair has shot two tightly financed indie features and helped launch a new arthouse cinema this year against the backdrop of war.
The veteran Lebanese producer, whose credits include Memory Box and Costa Brava, Lebanon, has been at the Red Sea Film Festival this past week as a member of the in-development jury for its Red Sea Souk project market.
He arrived from Morocco’s Marrakech Film Festival, where he had been participating in its Atlas Workshops project market with Cyril Aris’ It’s A Sad And Beautiful World, where it won a €10,000 post-production prize.
Mixing social drama, the romantic comedy follows an unlikely couple over three decades as they fall in love against the odds and then confront the challenges of parenthood against the backdrop of conflict and crisis-ridden Beirut, amid disputes over whether they should stay or leave the country.
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