Saudi Arabia’s Pink Sea Movie Basis has introduced that Mohammed Al-Turki is stepping down as its CEO to concentrate on private tasks and his profession as an impartial movie producer and businessman.
The physique, which was created within the wake of Saudi Arabia’s lifting in late 2017 of its cinema ban, oversees the Jeddah-set Pink Sea Worldwide Movie Pageant and can be charged with serving to to construct a cinema ecosystem within the nation.
Below Al Turki’s watch, the inspiration held the primary three editions of the RSIFF and supported 250 tasks from Saudi, MENA and Africa and Asia.
The muse mentioned the seek for a successor was underway and that within the interim, former Pink Sea Movie Basis board member Mohammed Asseri was stepping in as performing CEO.
Shivani Pandya Malhotra stays in place as managing director of the inspiration and Al-Turki will proceed to assist the management crew in an advisory function.
“We glance again on the previous three years and the constructing blocks which have been labored on relentlessly by the crew at Pink Sea Movie Basis and share our gratitude for Mohammed Al-Turki who performed a key function in main the crew and the Basis to the place it’s right this moment,” mentioned Pink Sea Movie Basis chairperson Jomana Alrashid.
“We look ahead to watching his profession as one in all Saudi’s most outstanding movie executives proceed. We additionally look ahead to welcoming new management to the Basis alongside our present crew which stays spearheaded by our Managing Director Shivani Pandya Malhotra.”
Information of Al Turki’s departure follows a high-profile Cannes for the inspiration, which supported 4 titles world premiering on the Croisette together with Tawfik Alzaidi’s Norah, which made historical past as Saudi Arabia’s first movie chosen for Official Choice, competing in Un Sure Regard the place it clinched a Particular Point out.
Different supported tasks included Administrators’ Fortnight title To a Land Unknown by Mahdi Fleifel, Cannes Critics’ Week closing movie Animale by Emma Benestan and The Brink of Dreams, by Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir, which additionally premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week and went on to share the Golden Eye Award for Finest Documentary.
“Working with the Basis on these three editions of the competition and cementing Saudi Arabia’s place on the worldwide stage of the movie trade has been an honor and a privilege,” mentioned Al Turki.
“We have now achieved a lot, and forward of our fourth version—we’re able we may solely have dreamed of some years in the past—which is why I really feel now’s the right time to transition. I’m grateful for the ties we’ve constructed as a crew and can proceed to assist my Pink Sea Movie Basis household led by the Chairwoman of the Basis Jomana Alrashid and its Managing Director Shivani Pandya Malhotra.”
The fourth version of the Pink Sea Worldwide Movie Pageant runs from December 5 to 14.
