Timur Bekmambetov & Image Nation Abu Dhabi Team On UAE Screenlife Accelerator Program
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Image Nation Abu Dhabi is teaming with L.A.-based Russian-Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov and his production banner Bazelevs to launch the Screenlife Accelerator Program in the UAE.
The initiative will train local talent – both UAE nationals and residents – in the innovative digital filmmaking format, pioneered by Bekmambetov and in which the action is entirely set on computer, tablet or smartphone screens.
Four projects incubated under the program will be developed into feature films. Screenlife pioneer Bekmambetov’s credits using the low budget technique include box office hits Unfriended and Searching, which earned $65M and $75M in the U.S.
respectively against a budget of $1 million. The latest instalment in the subgenre, Missing, grossed $48.8 million and topped the Netflix movie chart in the US last summer.
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