This article is about the announcement made during the Ayjal film festival that the Doha Film institute will fund Qatari filmmakers. The Ayjal Film festival is known as a community based program that allows all ages to get together to talk about cinema and things that have inspired their creative interactions. Their main goal is to inspire the creative, young film enthusiasts of all ages in Qatar. Along with that news of the Doha film institute, four features and eight short films will be supported by the Qatari fund as well as one feature film from the fund will also receive production funds in the next two years. More specifically, 50,000 dollars will be offered by the development fund to the feature films and the other 50,000 dollars combined as a development/production award to the short best short films. As a student, this makes me glad to hear that other children, teens, and adults from another part of the world now have the opportunity to see and follow the path of a filmmaker. Unlike us, some film enthusiasts around the world just hope to one day get a glimpse of what a camera looks like. Now that institutes like Doha, are starting to fund filmmakers, theres hope for undiscovered talent. As a filmmaker I can expect working with different cultured filmmakers, bringing more ideas to the table and different feels with new material for the audience. As a consumer, this might benefit me because maybe films will start to take a multi-cultured turn with different stories because of personal experiences from the foreign filmmaker's country. This certainly raises questions like: Will film become more multi-culture based? What kind of new talent will we see in the future? Will more film institutes help fund filmmakers all around the world?
This will help bring filmmakers together and share new ideas, it's a nice way to meet others as well that do the same things you do as well.
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