BMW Group Middle East has announced winners of the Mini Film Festival 2006 during a gala event held at the XVA gallery in Bastakiya, Dubai, UAE last week.
Omid Khoshnazar from Iran was declared winner with his short animation film Zero Degree; with Lonely Bench by Yousef Khowes (UAE) in second place; Zeina Aboul Hosn's I Remember Lebanon (Lebanon) in third place; and Buzz of Dubai by Ziad Oakes (UAE) winner of the 'People's Choice Award', says a press release.
"The inaugural year of the Mini Film Festival 2006 was a resounding success, and we were all impressed by the high calibre of the 55 entries received from across the Middle East. We congratulate winners of the MINI Film Festival 2006, and look forward to watching the development of their film careers," said Guenther Seemann, Managing Director, BMW Group Middle East.
The four winners were selected from a short-list of ten finalists, whose films were shown at the Mini Film Festival at the XVA Gallery in Bastakiya on the November 23.