Dalston-Dubai

A while ago I wrote about a competition to star in the UAEs first ever horror film. Well they've started filming in RAK and its very controversial - with Macbeth style superstition the name of the films isn't mentioned on set. 
As I understand, the theory of spirits and the afterlife go against the Islamic faith and so to explore these themes can be more than frowned upon. Nevertheless I think it shows the true spirit of the UAE to tackle these subjects with respect and it seems it's going to be rather good - "The man sitting in this chair, as it turns out, is Tobe Hooper, the somewhat legendary director of horror classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist. Tully says that Hooper is offered more than 30 scripts a week. "When he signed up to work with us, he said that he thought Djinn was the best script he'd seen in years." read the full article in the National

As Dubai International Film Festival draws to a close, (See the full list of DIFF winners here) this is your chance to be the star of a new film set and produced in the UAE. Unfortunately the casting is only open to six male and female Emiratis or Arab expatriates but if you fit the bill then this could be your chance to be a star! The film explores the world of the Djinn- mythological creatures with supernatural powers in Arab and Persian folklore and sounds like it will be quite something when its complete...?! I can only imagine!! Check out all of the information at Imagenation Abu Dhabi

DIFF Poster competition

Unless you go digging, this is the sort of opportunity we miss out on in Dubai, competitions don't seem to be advertised well here and so deadlines pass before anyone realises, and the standard of entries stay low. So here's a chance to up the design level and perhaps get your poster displayed across the region and tickets to the Dubai International Film Festival...

http://www.dubaifilmfest.com/index.php/en/particiapte/dubai-international-film-festival-poster-competition/

The DIFF Poster Competition is part of the Festival’s community outreach, and is intended to give the UAE’s creative community – including designers, advertising professionals, artists and other committed Festival- goers – more and deeper linkages to DIFF. The juried competition is open to any individual practicing art across the UAE, whether student or self-taught, full-time or part-time, professional or hobbyist, working in any medium or style.

All entries should be submitted prior to December 3, 2010


Drawing fashion, Design Museum, London

03 November – 06 March 2011
http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2010/2010-drawing-fashion

Drawing Fashion celebrates a unique collection of some of the most remarkable fashion illustrations from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. These original works define the fine art of illustrating fashion, from the collections of Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons and Poiret as well as Viktor & Rolf, Lacroix and McQueen.