Chris Newbould
The main announcement at the UAE pavilion on May 14 was the Sharjah International Children's Film Festival's plans to partner with the United Nations World Food Programme in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. As well as distributing food to children in the camp, SICFF will screen films and conduct art and media workshops. Sheikha Jawaher bint Abdullah Al Qasimi, director of SICFF, said the foundation's future plans include live-streaming of movies and events from the festival to the camp. "We hope to do that in future, but for now we're just taking it one step at a time," she says. "This year at the festival, we will be screening films that were actually made by kids in the camp, and we hope that will be an inspiration to kids here, to see that if these kids in a refugee camp can make films, then they can make films, too."
cnewbould@thenational.ae
