Veritas Films is a

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company based in the

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

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, 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

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region. It is due for completion in 2013.

History

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

Mahmoud Kaabour Mahmoud Kaabour (in Arabic محمود قعبور) (born March 11, 1979) is a filmmaker, writer, and public speaker from Beirut. Education and occupation He is the founder and managing director of Veritas Films, a UAE based company that speci ...

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Veritas Films
Mass media companies of the United Arab Emirates

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