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The Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) was an annual five-day film festival that was organised from 2009 to 2012 to promote Arab and international films, and to develop a sustainable film industry in Qatar. [1] One of Qatar's largest entertainment events, it attracted over 50,000 guests in 2010. [2]
The Doha Film Institute (DFI) is an independent production house that was founded in 2010 by her highness Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani. [8] The company aims to contribute to the growth of the local film community in Qatar, [ 9 ] and provides funding and production services for shorts and features of local, international ...
On 14 December 2010, FINA announced that Catania, Italy would host the 2014 Short Course Worlds. [3]In November 2011, the Italian Swimming Federation (FIN) withdrew their support of Catania as host for the event, due to the Italian regional government's missing deadlines related to financial guarantees for the event.
Doha, Qatar was chosen as the 2010 Arab Capital of Culture, an initiative of UNESCO's Cultural Capitals Program to promote Arab culture and encourage cooperation in the Arab world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Qatari government prepared for the festival in different ways, including building an $82 million cultural village.
Doha Film Institute (DFI) is a nonprofit cultural organisation established in 2010 by Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani to support the growth of the Qatari film community and to provide funding and international networking opportunities to creators. [1] [2] DFI hosts two major film festivals, Ajyal Film Festival and Qumra, each ...
Holy Rollers (2010) – crime drama film inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late 1990s [64] Howl (2010) – biographical film exploring both the 1955 Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of 20th-century American poet Allen Ginsberg's noted poem "Howl" [65]
The venue for the event was the indoor arena located within Doha's Aspire Zone – the ASPIRE Dome, which has previously hosted indoor athletics for the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. [3] The World Indoor Championships was the first of two significant athletics events to take place in Doha in 2010 – the inaugural 2010 IAAF Diamond ...
Katara Cultural Village (Arabic: الحي الثقافي كتارا), also known simply as Katara (Arabic: كتارا), is a cultural and commercial complex in Doha, Qatar, located on the eastern coast between West Bay and the Pearl. It was soft-opened in October 2010 during the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. [1]