“Everyone in the industry wants to work in the above-the-line jobs, they want to be directors, producers, actors, and screenwriters while we lack below-the-line jobs such as operators, art directors, and supervisors. What will attract international productions to Saudi Arabia is when we have the below-the-line crew. If we don’t have them it means we don’t have the basis of the industry.”
-Hajar Al-Naim, Saudi filmmaker, discussing the in-depth Saudi Film Skills report by the British Council in Saudi Arabia; the first of its kind coming only two two years after the Saudi government lifted a 35-year ban on the film industry in the country. [Arab News]
