The first Middle East and North Africa edition of the SundanceTV Shorts competition, held in partnership with beIN Media Group and the Doha Film Institute, has received more than 300 submissions from across the Arab world, as the deadline closes today.

The SundanceTV initiative to foster indie filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa – which follows editions of this competition in Europe and South Africa – has seen the bulk of shorts coming from Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, and Egypt, with entries also arriving from Yemen, Libya, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iraq, among other countries.

The Arabic shorts, all under 15 minutes long and with English subtitles, unless English is their spoken language, will be judged by a panel presided by AMC Networks Intl. exec VP programming Harold Gronenthal.

The jury also comprises Uma Thurman, Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir (“Wajib”) and Qatari-American artist and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria (pictured from left to
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