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DIFF Day 8: Jake Gyllenhaal and Shaggy highlight the final day of the festival
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2/12/2025
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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Day 8 and it's the last day of the 12th edition of Dubai International Film Festival.
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We spoke to some of the more competition nominees and they told us what it would mean for them
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to win the awards.
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I would be happy.
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It's mean for me to continue working on cinema and to continue to keep the passion of doing
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films in cinema.
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My film was 43 minutes, so it was a very awkward length for a short and it hurt me in a lot
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of film festivals, but I think it's a really, really good film and it will mean an enormous
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amount to me because I feel like at least more people will get to see it despite its
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length.
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Well, an award is something that's very meaningful because it means that it's a certain recognition
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for your work and it means that your movie has reached people and has touched them.
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And that's what I want my movie to do, is to touch people and to provoke something inside
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them.
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It will be a great pleasure for me, I would be really very happy because we really worked
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hard for this film and we're proud we've done such a film.
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Legendary American Jamaican reggae rapper Shaggy is in town for the closing of DIFF.
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Dubai is a place that I've always enjoyed since I've been coming over here, so any opportunity
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I get to come here, I'll come and especially when they're paying me, it's even better.
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Great place, great energy, it's a film festival, I've never done a film festival here in Dubai.
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I've been hearing great stories about it since I've been here, I was at the bar last night
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with a gentleman that decided he wanted to tell me everything that went on and how all
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the parties were good and everything was turned up and I'm just sorry I wasn't here for the
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early part of it, I'm just here at the end.
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So it's a privilege to be here and I'm in and out and hopefully I'll come back next
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year and spend a little bit more time.
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Always a fun place.
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Jake Gyllenhaal is in town to receive Variety's International Star of the Year award.
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He also spoke to us about what he looks for in a screenplay.
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To me I really look at pace, you know, pacing is a really important thing to me because
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I think when there's a pacing of a screenplay that's moving a certain way, I think there's
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a, even if it's slow, even if it's sort of lumbering in a way, I think that's what I'm
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looking for and I also think you can mistake structure a lot with really good dialogue
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and vice versa, but I think structurally I'm looking for something that really has
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an end, if I could be totally honest.
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I think often times...
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It goes to a place...
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It knows where it's going.
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My mother said to me, since I was very young, she said, it's okay to ask anybody telling
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a story what it's essentially about, you know, and so I often ask what is this about?
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In one sentence can you say what is this about?
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We've had some big stars here at the Dubai International Film Festival, as you would
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expect.
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To name a few, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dev Patel, Terence Howard and the legendary Richard Dreyfus.
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With over 130 films screened from 60 countries, it's time to roll up the red carpet for this
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year.
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I'm Summer Ganavati, live from the red carpet, from the 12th edition of Dubai International
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Film Festival.
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