Saudi Arabia’s Telfaz11 finds novel way to mark namesake 11th anniversary – Deadline

Saudi Arabia movie and digital content material manufacturing and finance firm Telfaz11 celebrated its eleventh anniversary on Friday by saying the beginning of shoot for its eleventh function movie, Night time Courier by Ali Al Kalthami.

Telfaz11, which was a number one participant in Saudi Arabia’s YouTube area of the 2010s, has quickly moved into function movie manufacturing following the lifting of the nation’s cinema ban in late 2017, slicing offers with Netflix and burgeoning native exhibitor Muvi to finance its slate.

“Telfaz11 celebrates its eleventh anniversary on 11/11/2022 with the beginning of its eleventh produced movie,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement. “Telfaz11 continues to indicate its ethos of pushing comedic boundaries by all the time celebrating the eleventh iteration of its most crucial milestones, reasonably than the extra widespread tenth.”

Riyadh-set darkish comedy Night time Courier revolves round a younger man who will get concerned in a high-risk bootlegging scheme to lift cash for medical therapy for his sick father.

The movie was unveiled final December on the inaugural version of the Pink Sea Movie Pageant’s undertaking market, the Pink Sea Souk. It’s on a slate of 4 productions being developed by Telfaz11 in partnership with Paris-based Simple Riders Movies.

Mohammed AlDokhi, who bought his first breaks in various Telfaz11’s short-form digital productions, is enjoying the lead.

The corporate is at the moment gearing up for the discharge this yr of three function movies, spanning action-comedy Sattar; darkish comedy Raven Track, which is Saudi Arabia’s Oscar entry this yr; and the satirical suspense comedy Khallat+.

All three titles will display on the second version of the Pink Sea Movie Pageant, operating within the Pink sea port of Jeddah from December 1 to 10.

Khallat+, which is a spin-off of a success on-line present that generated greater than 1.5 billion on-line views, will debut quickly on Netflix.

Different upcoming Telfaz11 productions attributable to be launched by the tip of the yr embrace the documentary Blue Spirit about Saudi Arabia’s iconic Al Hilal Soccer Membership.

“As we have fun eleven wonderful years since our founding, Telfaz11 continues to face on the forefront of one other pivotal interval of appreciable change in leisure,” mentioned Telfaz11’s CEO and co-founder Alaa Fadan.

“The frequent launch as we speak of cinemas and their quickly increasing field workplace revenues present helpful financial alternatives for native filmmakers and content material creators, with Telfaz11 main the best way.”