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Selim El Azar is a Lebanese national. He is the CEO of Gulf Film.

Since joining the company in December 2012, he transformed it into the Middle East’s leading film distributor along with the region’s top exhibitors through its Novo Cinemas theatre chain subsidiary.

He has systematically developed and built relationships with Hollywood studios and indies, and also with prominent European production companies.

Gulf Film currently commands the biggest market share and distributes roughly 120 titles per year, the vast majority of them Hollywood blockbusters and thrillers, plus some Bollywood titles and Egyptian Arabic pics.

For the first time in 2016, Selim El Azar sealed an equity investment deal with French mini-major Europacorp for big-budget sci-fi title, “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” The film was the first venture of Novo Pictures, the film-equity brand Gulf launched in April.

References

http://variety.com/exec/selim-el-azar/