EXCLUSIVE: MENA movie distribution and advertising firm and expertise company MAD Solutions has acquired worldwide rights to the quick movie The Last Miracle forward of its world premiere because the opener of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival later this month.
Its subsidiary MAD Distribution will deal with its launch throughout Arab-speaking territories, whereas the corporate’s recently-launched gross sales arm MAD World will take care of gross sales in all different territories.
The Egyptian quick is directed by Abdelwahab Shawky, whose earlier credit embody assistant director on Sudanese breakout function You Will Die At 20 by Amjad Abu Alala.
Well-liked actor Khaled Kamal (The Blue Elephant, Conflict) performs 40-year-old Yahya, who receives a shocking telephone name from a deceased Sheikh at a bar. Little does he know he’s about to go on a non secular journey with an surprising conclusion.
It’s primarily based on a story in a brief story assortment titled ‘The Tavern Of The Black Cat’ by the late Nobel Prize-winning creator Naguib Mahfouz.
Kamal is joined within the solid by Ahmed Siam and Abed Anani, with a particular visitor look by Ghada Adel, the Egyptian actress recognized for a two-decade string of cult movies and field workplace smashes, together with Mohamed Khan’s In The Heliopolis Flat.
Sudanese Egypt-based director and producer Abu Alala produced the quick underneath the banner of his firm Station Movies.
Egyptian producer Mark Lotfy, who co-wrote the screenplay, can also be on board along with his firm Fig Leaf Studios, the current credit of which embody Cannes doc prize-winner Mom Of All Lies and I Am Afraid To Overlook Your Face.
Additional manufacturing companions are Baho Bakhsh and Safei Eldin Mahmoud at Purple Star Movies (Goodbye Julia), Adel Abdullah’s Key Movies, and Shoft Studios, with the help of the Arab Fund for Arts and Tradition (AFAC).
The acquisition marks the second consecutive 12 months that MAD has picked up the world gross sales rights to El Gouna’s opening movie. Final 12 months, the corporate acquired Amr Salama’s Egyptian movie 60 Kilos, the primary ever quick in historical past to open an Arab movie competition.
MAD Distribution, will deal with distribution of the quick throughout Arab-speaking territories; whereas MAD World will deal with its sale in all different territories.
The El Gouna Movie Competition runs from from October 24 to November 1.
