The fifth edition of the hugely successful META Cinema Forum took off today at the Atlantis the Palm Island with renewed optimism following the opening of some large-format cinema screens a few months after the industry had started operating in full capacity.
As many as 56 exhibition stands are displaying the latest products, services, new technology from a select group of industry suppliers, technology providers and industry stakeholders at the convention where more than 44 industry officials and experts are sharing their views through speech, presentations, training and workshops, etc. on the current market situation, challenges and ways to overcome them.
More than 500 delegates, visitors, buyers, sellers and other industry stakeholders are participating at the event that is addressing the shortage of feature films, documentary movies and other film genres, among other issues.
META Cinema Forum will be participated by a number of global cinema industry leaders including Toby Tennant, Senior Vice-President for EMEA Theatrical Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures International; Tonis Kiis, Senior Vice President for International Distribution at Warner Bros. Pictures; Paul Higginson, Executive Vice-President, EMEA of Universal Pictures International; Toni El Massih, Managing Director – Cinemas, VOX Cinemas; Andrew Such, CEO of AMC Cinemas; John Schreiner, Senior Vice President for Theatrical Development in EMEA, at IMAX Corporation and Zaur Darabadeh, Chairman of the Board of CinemaPlus, among other global leaders.
The two-day event will see powerful presentations from Saudi Arabia, Asia and Africa regions, the future of the large-format cinema halls as well as the prospects of the streaming services, technology disruptions and other subjects.
At the two-day META Cinema Forum, experts are addressing the demand-supply mismatch in film contents and theatre facilities across the Middle East and Africa that will be concluded on October 26, 2022.
Apart from the Middle East and African countries, cinema industry stakeholders from Turkey, Asia and CIS countries have joined the META Cinema Forum, making it a truly global cinema industry convention that has become one of the must-attend global cinema conventions
