{"id":2205557,"date":"2025-12-19T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2205557"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:30:44","slug":"hollyshorts-dubai-wraps-first-edition-launches-competition-for-middle-east-film-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hollyshorts-dubai-wraps-first-edition-launches-competition-for-middle-east-film-students\/","title":{"rendered":"HollyShorts Dubai Wraps First Edition, Launches Competition for Middle East Film Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HollyShorts Dubai, which just wrapped its first edition providing Arab filmmakers a direct pipeline to Academy Awards consideration, is launching a dedicated short films competition for college students across the Middle East and beyond.<\/p>\n

The latest spin-off of the long-running Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival in L.A. ran Dec. 12-14 at Firdaus Studio in Expo City, Dubai where a highlight of the closing ceremony was a keynote by BAFTA winner Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer<\/a>, producer of the 2024 student short \u201cRock, Paper, Scissors<\/a>\u201d based on a true story that takes place during the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled with the reception from the local film community in Dubai, which welcomed us with open arms,\u201d HollyShorts founder Theo Dumont<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cTheir support was unbelievable and provided a strong foundation for us to continue in the direction of providing a valuable film festival, stressing educational initiatives and key networking opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HollyShorts Dubai, which just wrapped its first edition providing Arab filmmakers a direct pipeline to Academy Awards consideration, is launching a dedicated short films competition for college students across the Middle East and beyond. The latest spin-off of the long-running Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival in L.A. ran Dec. 12-14 at Firdaus Studio in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2205558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2205557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HollyShorts-Dubai-Wraps-First-Edition-Launches-Competition-for-Middle-East.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205559,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205557\/revisions\/2205559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}