Short-film competition selection10–16 June 2020
Online · Lebanon
Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival
Spamflix · online edition
- Lebanese short-film competition selection · Jabbara.
Alex Dahdah · Production designer
Edition & date
- Round
- Fourth edition, June 10–16, 2020 on Spamflix; postponed from November 2019.June 2020 programme announcement · award jury identified
Selection process
- Selection method
- Competition selection · 2020June 2020 programme announcement · award jury identified
Entry eligibility
- Entry eligibility
- Not established in the reviewed sources for this edition.
Assessment criteria
- Assessment criteria
- Not established in the reviewed sources for this edition.
Decision-makers
- Award jury
- Chafic Tabbara, Joyce Nashawati and Anne Delseth.June 2020 programme announcement · award jury identified
- Panel scope
- These were the competition’s award jurors. The announcement does not establish who selected the programme. This record is a selection, not a prize.June 2020 programme announcement · award jury identified
Programme scope
- Competition
- Eight Lebanese genre shorts; Jabbara was selected.June 2020 programme announcement · award jury identified
Organisation
- Based in
- Beirut, Lebanon
- 2020 programme
- The fourth edition was announced as an online programme on Spamflix, 10–16 June.
- Network
- Listed by the Méliès International Festivals Federation; a focus on fantastic cinema and regional filmmaking.
- Industry development
- Maskoon Fantastic Lab later co-led the UK Next Wave Genre Lab with Film Constellation and Tatino Films, listed by the BFI among its 2024 Creative Challenge programmes.
- Organisation profile
- Founded in Beirut in 2016, Maskoon focuses on fantastic and genre cinema. Its programme brings Arab and Lebanese filmmaking into screenings, short-film competition, masterclasses and industry discussions.
Place & participation
- Geographic relationship
- Online programme · organizer context · Online · Lebanon
- Geographic relationship
- Related work: Set construction for Irwin Theater, Beirut · Lebanon
Evidence & qualifications
- Selection evidence
- Jabbara was selected for Maskoon’s eight-film Lebanese short competition in June 2020. The competition’s award jury comprised critic Chafic Tabbara, filmmaker Joyce Nashawati and festival programmer Anne Delseth.June 2020 programme announcement · award jury identified
Sources & original records
SelectionMaskoon · contemporaneous fourth-edition announcementOrganisationMaskoon Fantastic Film Festival in ConnectionsOrganisationMéliès federation · Maskoon profileOrganisationFourth edition and first Fantastic Lab · 2020OrganisationBFI · 2024 UK Next Wave Genre LabPlaceJabbaraPlaceSourceResult / recordExecutive Bulletin · festival announcement, 3 June 2020
