Beirut Cinema Platform in its Sixth Edition, Competition for Arab Filmmakers, and a Chance to Win Valuable Prizes

Beirut DC is pleased to announce the events sixth edition of BCP that will take place in 2022 and a competition for Arabic filmmakers that on the sidelines of this festival. The upcoming edition of BCP will focus on the eminent potential of the selected films for impacting social and political realities. As such, Beirut DC fosters a safe and open meeting space for Arab filmmakers to team up with professionals from around the globe and build partnerships, collaborations, and co-productions.

If your film is among the winning works, you will get the opportunity to:

• Win amazing cash prizes.
• your project development, co-productions and collaborations.
• Facilitating the access to regional and international financing.
• Exchange of expertise between the participants and the film professionals.

You should follow the following terms:

• The filmmaker is a citizen of one of the 22 Arab countries.
• The filmmaker has at least one short film to their credit.
• The project is a feature-length film (fiction, documentary or docu-fiction films).
• The project is in development or a work in progress.
• For projects in development: the film is the director’s first or second feature-length.
• For works in progress: an Arab producer is attached to the project.
• Filmmakers are able to communicate in English since some of the professional meetings are held with foreign experts.
• Projects can be submitted in Arabic, English, or French.

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Selection Criteria:

The selection committee will prioritize: 

1. Projects with an attached Arab producer. 
2. Projects participating for the first or second time in a co-production platform.
3. Projects dealing with topics related to social justice, or the environment.

About Beirut DC

In 1999, a group of Lebanese filmmakers and cinephiles, faced with a lack of funding, support, and promotion opportunities, sought to create them for themselves. 20 years later, Beirut DC is an internationally established organization striving to empower filmmakers and audiences from every corner of the Arab world. It believes in the power of film as a driver for change, in access to independent cinema as a right to all communities, and in the right of Arab artists to choose their own narratives. Beirut DC creates resources, events, and virtual and physical spaces that bring filmmakers, communities, and civil society closer, paving the way for radical and transformative collaboration.

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