Discover the journey of documentary research in Egypt

Many people think that when you say a movie, it only means regular feature films that are shown on the screen or broadcast on television, but that's too much to be reduced to just one type of movie.

The film "is now and more than 100 years after the invention of cinema, the means of peoples and nations to progress and detect defects and try to treat them as entertainment, but several types of films do not receive not the same public interest.] According to the academic definition of the documentary word, this

There are many directions for documentaries such as romantic film that depends on the interest in the person's life and characterized by freedom of expression and spontaneity.The director treats very carefully the subject of his film and focuses on the scenes of everyday life.There is also a realistic trend, a type of film does not rely on the simple presentation of familiar characters and common themes inspired by nature and reality, but reveals the personality of different individuals and the similarity between them and they are the examples of the kind re el of the French film (no other than time), which is the production of Cante in 1926, the first film on the life of Paris, which reveals the possibility of expressing the reality of the city in all its contradictions. The philosophy of viewing the documentary film as a shroud is like music in terms of dependence on the element of movement and dependence on light and space.

Finally, there is a real cinema and this trend is based on the discovery of the realistic world and has helped to spread the trend of discovering a 16mm film camera, The first film of this genre was directed in 1922 by the Russian director Desija Vratov in the form of a film titled "Kino Pravda." It dealt with the evolution of Soviet society during this period of 1922 to 1924,

The real crisis of this kind of film is that its audience is clbady, ​​which means that evil only some audiences are interested in this type of art, except that the means of dissemination of these movies are limited to satellite channels, movies or internet movie downloads.

One of the most important channels that helped highlight the role of documentaries is the National Geographic Channel (Channel 1) Abu Dhabi Free, which aims to provide distinctive films and worthy of interest to the Arab public, and broadcast this channel documentaries dubbed the Arabic language of the National Geographic Mother Channel, which shows documentaries in all languages ​​of the world, and many National Geographic Channel Abu Dhabi began broadcasting on July 1, 2009.

The Academy of Film Pictures Arts and Sciences, an honorary academy of California in the United States, is one of the most prestigious documentary awards . This award is considered the most important and prestigious award for documentaries, which is sought after by award-winning audiences around the world.

In addition, several documentary shorts emerged during the last period,

One of the most important documentaries that were presented and won the Oscars:

Taxi to the Obscure Side and the projection of the film in 2007, the film is directed and written ]

Man on wire The film is directed by James Marsh and written ] Philippe Petit The film revolves around the great challenge of Philip Petit while walking on the rope between the World Trade Towers in New York.

"Day Seven" Adel Al-Absawi, head of central management of the excellent production of Egyptian television, said: "The documentary is of great importance because it documents the period of conservation Producers for future generations in Egyptian TV archives The documentary film was used to document the social, economic, architectural and life forms of this era.

Al-Absawi also highlighted the importance of documentaries to reflect on the correct facts about the events in the country, the documentary film is a true mirror of what happened in this period, there should have been a film documenting the documentary events that require those who would do research and study the whole truth.

Al-Abbasi pointed out that more than half of the funds that have reached the administration Central to the excellent production of Egyptian television were removed before 2015 and that most documentary films can be produced by self-financing efforts and external support. The documentary film is similar to the reading

Abbasi said that the duration of the documentary varies from 5 to 5 minutes to hours depending on the subject of the documentary film, Al-Abbasi pointed out that the different European countries are interested in documentary films complete, we find that there are many international festivals that take place every year for this kind of films used by the West to document their heritage history of the United Nations, where there is negligence of this kind of important films by government agencies in the country, especially after the withdrawal of support for its position in various other places, and do not emphasize the central management of the production of excellence in Egyptian television.

From different ministries using external production companies to create documentaries despite the presence of the central management of the excellent production of Egyptian television, which includes a selection of the most important documentary directors in Egypt and even in the Arab world. Pune.

At the end of our conversation with him, Abbasi said that he had hoped to make a documentary about the arrival of Egypt at the World Cup after 28 years of the last participation At the most important tournament in the world, and he wants to shed light on the central management of the excellent production of Egyptian television to produce many Egyptian documentaries that can help the prosperity of tourism and highlight the The most important monuments that exist in Egypt, which may fall into oblivion Documented in films for future generations to know.

Director Iyad Saleh has stated that documentary films It is not less important that any other type of film that production companies focus on on production over time, but he points out that one of the biggest problems of documentary films in Egypt is funding. Production companies in the disbursement of funds due to their poor material performance.

Saleh emphasized the importance of having a specialized channel for these films that help document the historical events that took place at different times, as long as 39, they can attract viewers to documentaries

He explained that before 2014 he was producing all kinds of documentaries in Egypt, with the exception of nature documentaries, but film production began to decline until it is almost complete.