DIFF Day 8: Jake Gyllenhaal and Shaggy highlight the final day of the festival

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DIFF Day 8: Jake Gyllenhaal and Shaggy highlight the final day of the festival. Jake Gyllenhaal, Shaggy and the Muhr Awards round out the events on the final day of the Dubai International Film Festival. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Day 8 and it's the last day of the 12th edition of Dubai International Film Festival.

00:13We spoke to some of the more competition nominees and they told us what it would mean for them

00:17to win the awards.

00:18I would be happy.

00:21It's mean for me to continue working on cinema and to continue to keep the passion of doing

00:27films in cinema.

00:29My film was 43 minutes, so it was a very awkward length for a short and it hurt me in a lot

00:36of film festivals, but I think it's a really, really good film and it will mean an enormous

00:44amount to me because I feel like at least more people will get to see it despite its

00:48length.

00:49Well, an award is something that's very meaningful because it means that it's a certain recognition

00:57for your work and it means that your movie has reached people and has touched them.

01:03And that's what I want my movie to do, is to touch people and to provoke something inside

01:08them.

01:09It will be a great pleasure for me, I would be really very happy because we really worked

01:14hard for this film and we're proud we've done such a film.

01:20Legendary American Jamaican reggae rapper Shaggy is in town for the closing of DIFF.

01:25Dubai is a place that I've always enjoyed since I've been coming over here, so any opportunity

01:30I get to come here, I'll come and especially when they're paying me, it's even better.

01:37Great place, great energy, it's a film festival, I've never done a film festival here in Dubai.

01:47I've been hearing great stories about it since I've been here, I was at the bar last night

01:50with a gentleman that decided he wanted to tell me everything that went on and how all

01:55the parties were good and everything was turned up and I'm just sorry I wasn't here for the

02:01early part of it, I'm just here at the end.

02:03So it's a privilege to be here and I'm in and out and hopefully I'll come back next

02:09year and spend a little bit more time.

02:12Always a fun place.

02:13Jake Gyllenhaal is in town to receive Variety's International Star of the Year award.

02:17He also spoke to us about what he looks for in a screenplay.

02:21To me I really look at pace, you know, pacing is a really important thing to me because

02:26I think when there's a pacing of a screenplay that's moving a certain way, I think there's

02:31a, even if it's slow, even if it's sort of lumbering in a way, I think that's what I'm

02:36looking for and I also think you can mistake structure a lot with really good dialogue

02:46and vice versa, but I think structurally I'm looking for something that really has

02:51an end, if I could be totally honest.

02:56I think often times...

02:57It goes to a place...

02:58It knows where it's going.

03:00My mother said to me, since I was very young, she said, it's okay to ask anybody telling

03:09a story what it's essentially about, you know, and so I often ask what is this about?

03:15In one sentence can you say what is this about?

03:18We've had some big stars here at the Dubai International Film Festival, as you would

03:22expect.

03:23To name a few, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dev Patel, Terence Howard and the legendary Richard Dreyfus.

03:28With over 130 films screened from 60 countries, it's time to roll up the red carpet for this

03:34year.

03:35I'm Summer Ganavati, live from the red carpet, from the 12th edition of Dubai International

03:39Film Festival.

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