Razor Film Produktion shot both Haifaa Al Mansour’s ’Wadjda’ and her new Venice title.Speaking in Venice this weekend, German producers Gerhard Meixner and Roman Paul, co-founders of Razor Film Produktion, have expressed their optimism about the future prospects for the Saudi film industry.Meixner and Paul broke new ground by producing Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda (2013), the first Saudi feature film as well as the first Saudi directed by a woman.
Now, they’ve been back to Saudi Arabia to produce Mansour’s new feature, The Perfect Candidate, sold by The Match Factory and which screened in competition earlier this week.
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