Sanad is the Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s Development and Post-Production Fund. Sanad provides talented filmmakers from the Arab world with meaningful support from within the region towards the development or completion of their narrative and documentary feature-length films.
The fund seeks out bold and remarkable projects from both new and established filmmakers with the aim of encouraging intercultural dialogue and artistic innovation while building stronger networks within the region’s film industry. Sanad also offers year-round support and publicity for selected projects to help connect filmmakers to potential partners, funding opportunities and audiences.
Sanad has 500,000 USD at its disposal annually and makes grants in the following categories:
* Development: Up to 20,000 USD per project
* Post-production: Up to 60,000 USD per project
The current application deadline is July 15, 2010.
Films Supported by Sanad at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Each October, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival is committed to showing a large number of the projects supported by Sanad. Supported films may be selected for the Festival’s Narrative, Documentary or Afaq Jadida Competitions, or for other non-competitive sections
Rules & Regulations
Legal Basis:
Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) is the legal entity of Sanad (the Fund). Utilization of the funds received from ADACH will be audited according to the laws of the United Arab Emirates. Entrants agree to be bound by the general Rules & Regulations of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. In order to be eligible for the Fund, entrants must comply with all of the following Rules & Regulations. Applications that fail to comply will be considered ineligible.
General Requirements:
The director or producer must be a national of the eligible countries listed below. A production company from at least one of the eligible countries must also be attached to the project. The eligible countries are: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.
Only feature-length narrative and documentary projects are eligible. Shorts and student films will not be considered. The minimum running times of projects is 61 minutes for narratives and 52 minutes for documentaries. The submitted project must not have been aired on any form of television, screened publicly or distributed in theatres or via the Internet.
The Fund reserves the right to determine the amount of the grant awarded to each recipient. The Fund’s grants are non-transferable, must solely benefit the projects to which they are awarded and may be rescinded if the director of a selected project changes.
Scripts and treatments should be submitted in their original language and be accompanied by an English or French translation. The complete application form should be emailed to sanad@adff.ae and all materials must be sent to:
Abu Dhabi Film Festival
c/o ADACH
P.O. Box 2380
(Abu Dhabi Film Centre, next to Abu Dhabi TV, opposite Rosary School)
Abu Dhabi, UAE
More information here.
The fund seeks out bold and remarkable projects from both new and established filmmakers with the aim of encouraging intercultural dialogue and artistic innovation while building stronger networks within the region’s film industry. Sanad also offers year-round support and publicity for selected projects to help connect filmmakers to potential partners, funding opportunities and audiences.
Sanad has 500,000 USD at its disposal annually and makes grants in the following categories:
* Development: Up to 20,000 USD per project
* Post-production: Up to 60,000 USD per project
The current application deadline is July 15, 2010.
Films Supported by Sanad at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Each October, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival is committed to showing a large number of the projects supported by Sanad. Supported films may be selected for the Festival’s Narrative, Documentary or Afaq Jadida Competitions, or for other non-competitive sections
Rules & Regulations
Legal Basis:
Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) is the legal entity of Sanad (the Fund). Utilization of the funds received from ADACH will be audited according to the laws of the United Arab Emirates. Entrants agree to be bound by the general Rules & Regulations of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. In order to be eligible for the Fund, entrants must comply with all of the following Rules & Regulations. Applications that fail to comply will be considered ineligible.
General Requirements:
The director or producer must be a national of the eligible countries listed below. A production company from at least one of the eligible countries must also be attached to the project. The eligible countries are: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen.
Only feature-length narrative and documentary projects are eligible. Shorts and student films will not be considered. The minimum running times of projects is 61 minutes for narratives and 52 minutes for documentaries. The submitted project must not have been aired on any form of television, screened publicly or distributed in theatres or via the Internet.
The Fund reserves the right to determine the amount of the grant awarded to each recipient. The Fund’s grants are non-transferable, must solely benefit the projects to which they are awarded and may be rescinded if the director of a selected project changes.
Scripts and treatments should be submitted in their original language and be accompanied by an English or French translation. The complete application form should be emailed to sanad@adff.ae and all materials must be sent to:
Abu Dhabi Film Festival
c/o ADACH
P.O. Box 2380
(Abu Dhabi Film Centre, next to Abu Dhabi TV, opposite Rosary School)
Abu Dhabi, UAE
More information here.
