Veritas Films is a

filmmaking Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...

company based in the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

. It creates cultural and corporate non-fiction content, including corporate films, short and feature-length

documentaries A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...

, TV programming, and videos, in both

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and

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. It is also an active contributor to the artistic and cultural offerings of the United Arab Emirates, through initiatives such as the multi-media documentary archiving of particular neighborhoods and the free, bi-annual film festival Mahmovies! Its feature-length documentary '' Teta, Alf Marra'' won seven major awards at international festivals in 2010-12 and was the first documentary produced in the region to achieve significant distribution in the Middle East. Its second creative documentary film, "Champ of the Camp", has already received one award and several grants. It is ground-breaking in that it is the first creative documentary ever shot in the labor camps of the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...

region. It is due for completion in 2013.

History

Veritas Films was founded in February 2008 by award-winning documentarian Mahmoud Kaabour.

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Veritas Films
Mass media companies of the United Arab Emirates

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