Look who signed our visitors book!
Yes George Clooney
He found the time to visit the museum whilst in Dubai recently and he really enjoyed it!
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We were invited by MEFCC to attend Dubai Comic Con and we organised with them a great one page comic competition inspired by the exhibits at the Dubai Moving Image Museum, the winner had is entry reviewed by Marvel’s VP of Creator Content, CB Cebulski as can be seen below!
The competition was judged by MEFCC’s Brett Benson and artist/designer Karien Mulder during an open mike evening hosted at DMIM
The winners were
1st place winner: Yasser Alireza, “Dhilman”
2nd place winner: Abdul Azim Al Ghussein, “The Magic Lantern”
3rd place winner: Yasmin Hamad, “Alhazen’s Real Discovery”
We have been very kindly invited by Animation Chamber to share their house at SIKKA14, a very exciting event which we’d like to share with you, and yes as you can see on the last picture people have been queueing!
Dubai Moving Image Museum and the Middle East Film and Comic Con present a comic competition for all ages. Create a one-page A3 comic and stand the chance to WIN a 3-day pass to Comic Com 2014 (April 3rd-5th), get promoted by the museum and Comic Con and have your comic reviewed by MARVEL COMICS! Visit the museum at a special rate of AED25 and get your entry. The more you visit the more you can enter!
Deadline is 26 March 2014 and the winner will be chosen at an acoustic, poetry and storytelling event from 18h30-21h30. We encourage you to dress up in our comic theme, so get creative!
PRIZES:
The best entry will win a single 3-day pass to The Middle East Film and Comic Con. The winning one-page comic will be reprinted (X10 original copies) to A3 size and displayed at the Dubai Moving Image museum (DMIM) stall at The Middle East Film and Comic Con (April 3rd-5th) 2014. Depending on the amount of prints sold, a 15% commission will go to the DMIM and the rest of the proceeds will go to the winning artist. If the artist wishes to donate the original piece, the artwork will be framed and displayed in the DMIM. The winning one-page comic will also receive a review and critique from the Vice President of Creator Content Development of Marvel Comics, CB Cebulski.
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Our school program is proving very popular and we have school visits booked everyday for the next 3 weeks!
Here are some pictures of kids enjoying some of the many interactive exhibits we have throughout the museum, what a fun place!
No image today just sound! You can hear Mandy giving Zahra and Michelle from Dubai Eye 103.8 a tour of the museum by following this link: Dubai Eye 103.8
It was a great honour to have His Highness Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority inaugurate the Dubai Moving Image Museum today
A full album of the event can be found on our facebook page www.facebook.com/DubaiMovingImageMuseum
The Dubai International Film Festival is in full swing and we have hosted a visit to the Museum by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science also know as the “Oscars” people and they really enjoyed their time thanks to Mandy guided tour.
We have also organised tours for the Festival delegates and they are getting more and more popular.
We are present at Diff Dubai Film Market, Mr. Juma the Diff chairman very kindly arrange this for us and we are very thankful.
This year is the tenth anniversary of DIFF and we are very pleased to be official partners.
The Festival opens on the 6th of December and we are looking forward to showing the delegates round our museum where they’ll discover the prehistory of cinema.
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