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 Dubai's Crown Prince General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum spared no expense for the city's premier film festival. Serving as a cultural bridge, the Dubai Film Festival was designed to be an instrument of global understanding and dialogue between Arab and non-Arab worlds. A-list celebrities from the east and west were invited to the weeklong gala featuring 75 films screened at six venues.
Dubai is known as a playground to the very rich, with countless resources on hand for businesspeople, tourists and expatriates. However, launching its first-ever film festival was a tremendous undertaking that involved turning four venues, including a bare bones auditorium, huge exhibit hall, and an outdoor amphitheatre, into cinema showcases. These venues were not intended for motion picture viewing, so all equipment needed to be flown in and brought together seamlessly. The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) committee hired BL&S for the complex preparations.
BL&S happily took on the role of turnkey provider, determining all equipment specifications; shipping, installing, and testing equipment; collaborating with local suppliers; and handling all logistics to ensure the best presentation. After an initial fact-finding visit to Dubai several months before the event, the BL&S team pulled together all the necessary resources.
Seven projection and sound specialists flew to Dubai, bringing with them 80 crates of equipment, including giant portable screens, movable masking for remote controlled opening and closing of theatre curtains, a complete set of projection system spares, four complete Dolby sound systems with enough spares to build three more, etc.
Once there, the team set out to create world-class presentation theatres, working alongside local vendors to ensure that every piece of equipment was properly installed and calibrated. For the outdoor amphitheatre, an enormous structure was constructed to support and protect the screen from wind and constructed platforms for an array of high-fidelity speakers.
BL&S conducted rigorous tests before the event to ensure the best presentation possible. Technicians tested dozens of lenses to find the one with the ideal throw distance for each venue. Lamphouses and reflectors were chosen to achieve ideal brightness and evenness across the screens. The team brought in isolation systems to eliminate any sound disturbances from the movement of the projectors. The equipment was selected or modified to run on local power which is different than the US or Europe. BL&S has power distribution and conversion technology allowing operation anywhere in the world.
The festival opened to much acclaim. His Highness Sheikh Ahmed, the festival chairman, praised the DIFF team on their exhaustive readiness, expressing his confidence in the inaugural festival.
The outdoor venue opened with a screening of "Lawrence of Arabia"-- the first-ever showing ever of this film on the Arabian peninsula.  Request an Estimate  Download Client List
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