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Captain Abu Raed, starring Nadim Sawalha and Rana Sultan and introducing Hussein Al-Sous and Udey Al-Qiddissi, is the first Jordanian feature film aimed at both domestic and international audiences.

Captain Abu Raed premieres at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2008, and opens in theaters in Jordan on February 6. Watch for it at film festivals throughout 2008.

> Captain Abu Raed Website 

Captain Abu Raed Website

Amin Matalqa

Writer and director Amin Matalqa's own father was a pilot. The filmmaker was born in Amman, Jordan and moved the U.S. as a teenager. After a brief but successful career in business, he decided to "follow his bliss" and moved to Los Angeles to study and create films. 26 short films later he was able to assemble the financing and a team of 200 to create Captain Abu Raed. And this is just the beginning: Amin plans to make many films yet and is already hard at work on his next project.

Clark Graff

Transplanted Canadian, musician, filmmaker, and technological renaissance man Clark Graff first heard of SpeedGrade from Kim Libreri when the two were working on the Matrix sequels. "I learned a lot from Kim and SpeedGrade is just a part of it." Clark is technical, production and post supervisor at Gigapix and owner of GRAFF Network Services. He has worked on The Matrix: Reloaded, The Matrix: Revolutions, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, I, ROBOT and many other films.

Mark Read

Only the second-ever user of SpeedGrade way back in 2003, Mark Read created the world's first all-digital, tapeless uncompressed production pipeline for Lazytown, Nickleodeon's popular children's program. Mark's company, Hypercube, based in Boulder Colorado, provides consulting and project supervision for advanced digital acquisition and postproduction. Recent films Mark has worked on include Tropic Thunder, The Changeling, Stillwater, and Letters from Iwo Jima.

 

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