Sea Souk, the four-day industry market of the Red Sea Film Festival, is positioning itself

second edition includes two development competitions, a work-in-progress competition, and the Red Sea 360º event,

selected for the development and pic-in-post competitions are competing for $400,000 in Red Sea Fund awards,

first edition had over 3,500 accredited industry professionals and organizers expect an even larger turnout

international sales agents, distributors, festival programmers and a 30-person team from Netflix, with the streamer

the $10 million Red Sea Film Fund, which is catalyzing a growing network of coproduction partners

to this strategy is the booming Saudi box office, which was $238 million in 2021, a 95% increase

this region is in major expansion,” explains the foundation’s managing director Shivani Pandya Malhotra

a lot of movies that need to be financed, which makes the Red Sea Souk

office in Saudi Arabia and throughout the region features American blockbusters, and films from Egypt,