As we reflect on the dynamic landscape of the past year, The Co-Production Salon emerges as a key driver of collaboration and innovation within the industry. Here's an in-depth review of our significant happy moments in 2023:  

🤩 We’ve expanded! if you recall, our first Co-Production Salon was at DISCOP Dubai in May 2022. A year later, In May 2023, we hosted a Salon in CABSAT at the Dubai World Trade Centre, and in November 2023, we hosted another one at the Global Media Congress at the AbuDhabi National Exhibition Centre!  

Why did we expand, you ask? Because it’s hard not to, when you see overwhelming demand. Here are some numbers that we’d like to share with you that we have calculated over the past year:   

👉 350 meetings facilitated for the purpose of Co-Production, Co-funding, or commissioning TV and Film PREMIUM entertainment Content.   

👉 $10.5 million were tracked in investment in Content to and from MENA as a result of these meetings. (excluding deals of which the values were not reported)    

👉 1 deal closed for every 6 meetings held is the deal closing rate that we monitored.   

Want to find out who/ when/ how these deals were closed? Check out the companies participating and our partner events on this page. If these numbers don’t seem real, you can ask them yourself 😉 The Arabic content industry is indeed flourishing!   

So..... was it the right decision to expand? 

👍 Yeah, i'd like to see more info about how to be part of this! 

👎 Nah, I have a different opinion!

Share your opinion with us! info@coproductionsalon.com

🌍 MIPCOM's Global Stage: MIPCOM at Cannes, France, represented a pinnacle in elegance and global connectivity.  If you don’t already know MIPCOM, it is the world’s biggest content show. You’re only cool if you do cool stuff at mipcom, so we did this: THE FIRST EVER COLLECTIVE ARABIC Marketing Campaign featuring 5 of the MENA region’s biggest and most respected Arabic Production houses. Our Marketing Campaign for Arabic content was dubbed “La Crème de La Crème of Arabic entertainment” projecting on an 18- meter GIANT screen right on the higher-end area of the Croissette Promenade. Here's what it looked like:

Eagle Films signs Format adaptations rights of their hit series “Till Death” to Turkey’s D Media 

Abudhabi-based

 Twelve P animation launched some of their PREMIUM top- notch Kids shows in ARABIC and English on youtube! Check them out! Rockooons in Arabic and Orange Moo Cow in English.

 Arabic Production Giant Cedars Art have been doing more cool things than we can count, so for now we will highlight their Amazon Exclusive "Last Round", a boxing-themed 8-episode dramedy starring a very sporty looking Shirtless Egyptian star Ahmed Al Sakka 😏 . It is not clear yet how long the exclusivity period with Amazon is, but we anticipate that it will be available for its second run on other platforms within less than a year (8-9 months maybe?), as is standard for the first run period in MENA.

🇸🇦🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia's Giant Production House Sadaf Media Production (SMP), launched their film Production arm after 30+ years of specializing in TV Productions. This is BIG news! SMP will be present in Saudi's Theatrical space, opening up even more opportunities for collaborations and partnerships. 

 SMP also announced the opening of their top-notch 10,000 meter fully furnished studio and production facility located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Here are some cool photos that make us want to visit! 

Blink Studios is about to drop some exciting news—THREE awesome co-production projects for their 2024 lineup! Get ready for a Middle Eastern animated series teaming up with international partners for a global audience, a teen girls sitcom, and a space-themed animated family feature film. What makes it even cooler? Each one of these projects fills a big gap in the content demand in our part of the world. Blink Studios is totally rocking the data-driven decision-making game! 🚀

🏅🏅BroadcastPro Award Celebration with the industry 

In September 2023, our founder and MD, Heba Korayem was thrilled to be part of the judging panel for Arabic production nominated entries at the BroadcastPro Awards night, run by the most respected industry publication in the region! Judging a list of more than 20 amazing Arabic productions was not easy, but celebrating Arabic content is a joy, and we're stoked to shake things up and push the industry forward. Cheers to @BroadcastPro for recognizing and boosting the amazing companies in the Arabic media game! 🎉📺 #MediaMagic #ArabicProductionPower 

🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦SAUDI ARABIA baby! Where the action is! Check out FOMEX and SAUDI MEDIA FORUM  happening from February 19 to 22. We'll be looking forward to see you there!  Want to mingle with us and connect with our network/ find cool potential business partners for Co-Production?  Fill this form