The renowned journalist M’hamed Krichen participates in the roundtable presentation of the Al Jazeera television and UNESCO Audiovisual e-Platform

16th June, 2009 - Publicado por admin -

The famous Al Jazeera television presenter, M’hamed Krichen, has joined the Granada Cines del Sur Festival to take part in the presentation Tuesday at 17:30 in the Pabellón de al­-Andalus y la Ciencia.
Within the section on Special Sessions, Initiatives from the South, Ruth Gómez Sobrino will present the agreement between the Granada Cines del Sur Festival and UNESCO’s Audiovisual e-Platform designed to stimulate and encourage the promotion of peripheral films on the Internet, as well as to create new spaces and initiatives for this festival.
Following that, the presenter M’hamed Krichen and the head of the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Montaser Marai, will present some of the lines of collaboration for their television channel with other countries, such as those being carried out on the documentary channel itself and the possibilities for co-productions and the search for new proposals, as well as future lines of collaboration with the Granada Cines del Sur Festival that include showing six films from another of its channels, Al Jazeera Children, during the next edition of Aula Sur in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of the Andalusia government.

Immediately afterwards, and as an example of the first steps of this fresh new collaboration, the films Swings by Basel Ramsis (Egypt, 2007, 98’) and Story of a child called Almasa by Ashraf Mashharawi (Qatar, 2008, 21′).