Live!

I will be - and have been - here (in the screen below to be precise) for the next six days of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival 2012, interviewing some brilliant directors, actors, screenwriters and personnel from the Doha Film Institute, live from their respective Red Carpet events.

In the past couple of days, we've hosted the directors of The Lebanese Rocket Society, Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Jreige, homegrown talent in the form the directors of Arab hip hop/revolution doco Lyrics Revolt, and the Raging Bull himself, Bobby de Niro.

Over the next six days of festival, we will be hosting some of the most promising regional talents, including Ali Cherri (Pipe Dreams), Ehab Tarabieh (Al Mansiyun), Hanan Abdulla (In the Shadow of a Man), Damien Onouri (Fidai) and more.

 

The Thunder from Down Under

Aspire Tower and Khalifa Stadium moments before the game

In spite of the AFC's ridiculous choice, opting for an Uzbek referee (Australia beat Uzbekistan 6 - nil in their last match) and the vuvuzela-competing, 'Honda' emblazoned plastic tubes, a brilliant night of football has marked the end of the Asian Football Cup, here in Doha. Playing to the beat of over 37,000 spectators' chants, the Socceroos and Japan took to the pitch for 120 minutes of pure excitement.