BBC Arabic Festival 2017 Award Winners
Hannah Khalil
Digital Content Producer, About The BBC Blog
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The Third BBC Arabic Film Festival closed last night (Thursday 30 March) with an awards ceremony at the BBC Radio Theatre in London.
After a week of screenings and events bringing bold voices, telling unique and original stories to a London audience, the awards highlight the judges' selection from the programme. This year the judging panel featured award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Jihan El-Tahri; Charlie Phillips, Head of Documentaries at The Guardian; Kate Townsend, Executive Producer of BBC Storyville; film producer Nadine Toukana; BBC Arabic TV News presenter Tony El-Khoury; columnist and commentator Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi; award-winning foreign correspondent Yalda Hakim and film and television producer Rosa Bosch.
They selected the following winners:
- Best Feature Documentary – The Art of Moving by Liliana Marinho de Sousa
- Best Short Documentary – Aida by Maysoon ElMassry
- Best in Reportage – Fate, Wherever it Takes Us
- Best in Short Film – Mare Nostrumby Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf
- Liliane Landor Award for Best in Journalism – Babor Casanovaby Karim Sayad
- Young Journalist Award – Ambulanceby Mohamed Jabaly
The winner of the Young Journalist Award receives bespoke support to make his next film. This will include equipment, training and mentoring. There is also the possibility of him being invited to present his film at the next Festival, and for his film to be aired on BBC Arabic TV, as happened with the last winner of the award: Jordanian film-maker Jumana Saadeh.
BBC Arabic is part of the BBC World Service which delivers news content around the world in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital, reaching a weekly audience of 210 million.
