Winning Short Film Announcement, 8 February 2023
Congratulations to the team behind the short film ‘The Girl who Fell in Love with the Mangroves’ for winning the first prize in the RAK Fine Arts Festival 2023. This film was part of the Mangroves from the Water 2021 exhibition in Geelong, Australia. We hope the prize will encourage film producers to create more inspiring films for the mangroves.
We’d like to congratulate the writer and film director Pauline Dupin, and also Rakhi Sawalani who acted the main character ‘the Girl’.
We also acknowledge Geraldine Chansard, the film executive and the creator of Woman from the Mangroves, the sculpture featured in the film.
On this occasion we’d also like to thank the Sharjah Institute for Heritage and the Chairman Dr Abd Aziz Al Musallam for their continuous support to the mangroves and our art campaign, Mangroves from the Water (MFTW). We thank the Institute for publishing extra issues of a special edition of Marawed magazine that focuses on the mangroves as part of Emirati Heritage.
To follow up the news about the winning film, please open these links:
https://mangrove-girl.webador.fr/about
https://www.instagram.com/mangrove.girl/
Zahidah Zeytoun Millie
MFTW Founder and Curator
Mangroves from the Water (MFTW) 