"One More Day" makes it to Abu Dhabi
One More Day or "Yowm'k", Chaker Ben Yahmed's directorial debut, makes it into the Emirates Competition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. It made it's international debut at the Ourense International Film Festival and will be shown for the first time officially in the Middle East at ADFF.
It looks at the lives of a newly wed couple's routine through their bathroom mirror.
One More Day was written and directed by Chaker Ben Yahmed. It's edited by Saleh Nass with Sound Design by Khalid Abou Zeid. It stars Zahra Assere & Ehsan Ali.
Abu Dhabi Film Fesitval runs from Oct 14th to the 23rd 2010.
Chevrolet Supercars 2009/2010 Season Finale
Elements have just completed Round 7 of the Chevrolet Supercars Middle East Championship which brings the 2009/2010 Season to a close. The series took us across the Gulf from Bahrain to Abu Dhabi, Dubai & Riyadh.
Round 7 - one of the most action packed races of the season, Fahad Al Musalem sped to victory in the very final race on this year’s calendar, claiming his second consecutive Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship.
Sharif Al Mahdy, Chevrolet Supercars Championship organiser said “The Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship has established itself as one of the most competitive series to be found in the Middle East and features some of the best drivers to be found in the GCC...This year has been fantastic and I am sure next year will be even better!”
Elements would like to congratulate all the drivers and organisers of the series and looks forward to working with them again soon.
Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship can be seen on BTV Sport & Motors TV UK.
- SC09 Results - Courtesy of www.supercarsme.com
Understanding Autism Exhibition
Elements took part in the "Understanding Autism Exhibition". The video was commisioned by it's organisers, Wish Child Welfare, to devise and create the video for the exhibition and the sound for part of the exhibit.
Elements attend FT Film Business Summit
Managing Partners at Elements, Chaker Ben Yahmed & Saleh Nass attended the inaugural FT Business of Film Summit, at the Four Seasons Hotel Doha in Qatar.
The summit, being produced in partnership with Alnoor, a private Qatari Company, was chaired by Matthew Garrahan, Los Angeles Correspondent, Financial Times & featured a distinguished speaker line up such as Michael Andreen, Senior Vice President, International Production, Walt Disney, Jeremy Thomas CBE, Producer, Founder Recorded Picture Company and HanWay Films & Tarak Ben Ammar, Chairman, Quinta Communications.
The agenda offered a valuable insight into the commercial and funding opportunities that exist in the global film industry.
Titas Receives Peer Raben Award
Elements long-time collaborator & composer Titas Petrikis received the PEER-RABEN-MUSIC-AWARD for the best music to a short film at SoundTrack_Cologne in 2009. The jury was searching for film scores where the relationship between the images and the music and sound is innovative and dramaturgically clear. This was fulfilled by the short Noirville (dir. Andy Marsh) with the music by Titas Petrikis. Noirville was nominated along with 9 other films out of 140 participants and was announced to be the winner. The film tells a story about the lone girl Lucy, who is settled in a weird abandoned place, called Noirville. While hiding of the war, one day she discovers a strange article in the forest which changes her life.
Filming for Chevrolet Supercars ME - Round 2
Elements have started work on Episode Two of the Chevrolet Supercars Middle East Championship programme.
For Round 2, the team was on home turf at the Bahrain International Circuit - where a full sized OB Truck was shipped in to handle the multi-camera filming of the racing weekend. Anyone familiar with Bahrain will know the difficulties involved.
Split in to two units across 5.4km of track - one to handle the magazine programme and the rest concentrated around the OB unit, the Speed Weekend at BIC was one to remember.
Round 2 is currently is in post-production. Round 1 is being on shown on various sports channels in the region.
Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship- Round 1
Elements have just finished work on the first ever episode of the Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship which is due to be shown on various sports channels around the region.
The Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship is a product of the unique collaboration and partnership between General Motors & Bahrain International Circuit & is a fantastic series that promotes motorsport in the Middle East to a level never seen before in the region.
Led by Managing Partner, Chaker Ben Yahmed, the team were in Abu Dhabi at the inaugural Abu Dhabi F1 Race at Yas Marina Circuit. The Supercars were there in support of the F1 race and will be travelling around the region.
The segments for the intro and supplementary content for the racing programme were filmed in P2 HD and utilised a tapeless workflow.
"It was quite challenging filming on cards with a programme such as this," said Chaker on the plane back to Bahrain, "You have to be quite fast with the footage as we have a quick turnaround when we get back - tapeless helps us achieves this but also brings with it some difficulties as it's a relatively new technology."
Watch out for the first episode of the Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship on your TV screens in the weeks to come.
Website Launch
Finally, after countless different versions, hiring of different developers, until working with someone we feel comfortable with - the elements website is up and running!
Thank you Zainals!
Enjoy!
