We would like to thank you for taking the time to watch all the films from the 11th annual Zayed University Middle East Film Festival, our first fully international film festival and our first virtual festival. We had a remarkable selection of films this year. We are happy to announce that all of the films will be available to watch on this, the official ZUMEFF website for the foreseeable future.
There are many people who we would like to thank for making this year’s ZUMEFF such a success. Our main sponsor this year was twofour54’s Creative Lab. We would specifically like to thank the following people at twofour54 for all their many contributions which made this year so successful. They are:
- Michael Garin
- Maitha Khalifa
- Ruaa Al Ahmadi
We would also like to thank the following for judging the films in the Creative Lab Emerging Filmmaker Award:
- Gehad Darwish
- Alicia Gonzales
- Fatima Al Dhaheri
- Ali Aljabri
Lastly, we would also like to thank our pre-screeners and all of our judges for all of their efforts in helping select the winning films. Thank you!
We would like to once again congratulate the winning films, and thank all the students who submitted films this year.
Stay tuned to the site and our socials as we look ahead to #ZUMEFF2022.