Asia Journalist Association is media sponsor of Rakoda Film Festival

Rakoda Asian Film Festival Logo

By Ashraf Aboul-Yazid
Asia Journalist Association President

ALEXANDRIA: An agreement was reached between the Rakoda Film Platform, Asia Journalist Association and its digital and paper publications, The AsiaN (Next News Network), and Magazine N. The association and its various publications will be the media sponsor of the Rakoda Film Festival.

Veteran Korean media figure Lee Sang Ki hailed the media partnership with Rakoda Film Platform for cooperation that would support Asian cinema.

Lee Sang-ki, publisher of Magazine Inn and The AsiaN, Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, president of the Asian Journalists Association, and Edmad Al-Nuwairi, founder of Rakoda Film Platform

Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, President of the Asia Journalist Association, expressed his happiness with this sponsorship, given that the festival represents a bridge of cultural and civilized communication between Arab cinema and its counterparts in Asian countries, which would attract filmmakers to present their creativity and shed light on each new experience, to take its right of attention. and definition.

The festival is held under the theme “Films are Messages of Peace” every year, and aims to focus on short fiction films in Asia, by holding an annual competition. Many activities and events are planned to spread cinematic awareness, and encourage young film talents.

Magazine N logo, and the AsiaN logo

The festival aspires to be a cinematic celebration that stands absolutely against racism, terrorism and dictatorship, to elevate the aesthetic sense, through art that is the most important among the arts, and to triumph in the end for human values, pure and purposeful art, and noble human passion.

The festival is held under the umbrella and within the activities of the digital platform (RAKODA), the specialized film platform founded and headed by film critic and screenwriter Imad Al-Nuwairi, and with the support of Media Du in Kuwait and the Kuwait Film Club.