Riyadh – 
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The Red Sea Film Fund has announced the recipients of its most recent round of grants for African and Arab feature films.
Haifaa Al-Mansour and Kaouther Ben Hania films are among the 36 projects from across the Arab world and Africa that will receive grants.
The news was announced shortly after the fund revealed it had made its first investment in Europe as executive producer of Johnny Depp’s upcoming period piece Jeanne du Barry.
the Fund is financing 36 productions by Saudi, Arab, and African filmmakers in its most recent round of funding for Arab and African filmmakers, of which 25 are in production or almost finished and 11 are in post-production.
The grant will go to Ben Hania, whose previous film The Man Who Sold His Skin was nominated for an Oscar in 2021, for her latest work of fiction, Mime. Miss Camel, a film by Al Mansour about a Saudi teen trying to avoid an arranged marriage and enroll in an art school outside of the nation, will also receive an award.
