Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al Saud, Minister of Culture, has appointed Engineer Abdullah bin Nasser Al Ayyaf Al-Qahtani as CEO of the Film Commission, which aims to develop the film industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The new film commission is one of 11 new cultural bodies recently launched by the Ministry of Culture to manage the Saudi cultural sector. Engineer Abdullah Al Ayyaf Al-Qahtani is one of the leading names in the Saudi film industry and has worked as a director, producer and writer for many distinguished local works since 2004. He also chaired arbitration committees of local and regional film festivals and worked as a film critic for a number of leading Saudi newspapers. Al-Qahtani, who graduated from the College of Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in 2001, led programs and events at Saudi Pavilion at Expo 2020. He also managed programs and initiatives at King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) for three years along with a number of leading positions in Saudi Aramco. The Film Commission will organize the film industry in Saudi Arabia through several key roles, including setting a comprehensive strategy for the film sector and developing a production environment to produce Saudi films with high production standards to be marketed locally and internationally.
