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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