Updated: June 22, 2009
CORRECTIONS:
UPDATED: June 22, 2009
- A EUROMED reports titled "Commission Staff Working Document Accompanying The Communication From The Commission To The European Parliament And The Council - Jordan Progress" reported incorrectly that "Within the framework of regional programme Euro-Med Audiovisual II, a third edition of the Cinema Caravan was organised in August 2008. The programme provided training for members of the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative helping to establish links with the Ministry of Culture and the Royal Film Commission." No such training was provided or requested by the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative from Cinema Caravan. The Amman Filmmakers Cooperative has no members or membership. We have graduates of our educational program and/or beneficiaries of our production services. Cooperative graduates had benefited from other valuable Euromed programs such workshops by Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders and travel grants to workshops and festivals.
EUROMED Jordan report: http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/progress2009/sec09_517_en.pdf
- In a commissioned report on the state of cinema in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, the author mistakenly referred to the Amman FIlmmakers Cooperative as the Oman Filmmakers Cooperative, based in the Arabian Gulf Sultanate of Oman. This is not correct. We have not relocated from Amman to Oman. We still have the same mailing address in Amman. Nevertheless, in return for some barrels of fine Omani oil, to help fund our films, we might consider opening a branch of the Cooperative in Oman. As a compromise, we will call it the Omman Filmmakers Cooperative.
- In the Mars 2009 issue of Royal Wings Magazine, in an interview with Hazim Bitar, he was described as a spokesperson of the Royal Film Commission. Obviously this is not true. Hazim Bitar is not affiliated with the Royal Film Commission. He is the founder an coordinator of the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative, a local cultural NGO. He has no royal blood and the closest he had ever gotten to royalty is an Espresso at the Le Royal Hotel lobby in Amman by the 3rd Circle.
- The View has not been selected to the Toronto Palestine Film Festival. It was only requested for possible selection. In our last E-NEWSLETTER, we reported mistakenly that the film has been selected.
- A foreign newspaper reported that a film by the Cooperative will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. There is no truth to this statement and no such claims were made by the Cooperative or any of its associates. This is a case of lost in translation. But we pray the film fairy will make this wish come true one day.