Amanda Palmer is the Executive Director for the Doha Film Institute

Doha Film Institute

The Doha Film Institute is an independent cultural organisation established to incorporate Qatar’s film initiatives under one banner. DFI was founded in 2010 by H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani...

, , an independent cultural organisation founded by H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani

Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani

Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani is the 14th child of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the current Emir of Qatar, and the eldest daughter of the Emir with his second wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned....

 which promotes year-round film education, film financing, production, and building a sustainable film industry

Film industry

The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking: i.e. film production companies, film studios, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors and other film crew...

 in Qatar

Qatar

Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

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Palmer is also the Executive Director of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival

Doha Tribeca Film Festival

The Doha Tribeca Film Festival is an annual five-day film festival founded in 2009 to promote Arab and international film, and to develop a sustainable film industry in Qatar. The Festival is one of Qatar's largest entertainment events attracting over 50,000 guests in 2010.DTFF is the annual film...

 and heads its programming team which puts together DFI’s annual five-day film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 founded in 2009 to promote Arab

Arab cinema

Arab cinema refers to the cinema of the Arab world.-Overview:There is increased interest in films originating in the Arab world. For example, films from Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian territories, Syria and Tunisia are making wider and more frequent rounds than ever before in local film...

 and international film in cultural partnership with Tribeca Enterprises

Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...

. The Festival is one of Qatar's largest entertainment events attracting over 50,000 guests in 2010 and provides an international platform to filmmakers from the MENA

MENA

The term MENA, for "Middle East and North Africa", is an acronym often used in academic, military planning and business writing.The term covers an extensive region, extending from Morocco to Iran, including the majority of both the Middle Eastern and Maghreb countries...

 region to showcase their work to a global audience.
Palmer continues to present and executive produce Al Jazeera English’s

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera is an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and headquartered in Doha, Qatar...

 flagship film programme “The Fabulous Picture Show” and “48” and has curated two TEDx ‘ global thinkers ‘ events in Doha

Doha

Doha is the capital city of the state of Qatar. Located on the Persian Gulf, it had a population of 998,651 in 2008, and is also one of the municipalities of Qatar...

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Palmer’s previous positions include senior management titles at Channel Seven Australia, CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

and the Associated Press Television Network.

External links

• Biography: Amanda Palmer
• http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/11/doha-tribeca-film-festival-black-gold.html