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Oct 2020
37m 16s

Episode 15 - Chady Eli Mattar (Part II)

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About this episode

Chady Eli Mattar is a Lebanese film producer based in California and founder of KINO Industries, an interactive theatrical platform aiming to revolutionise the way we watch movies.                   

Chady recounts nerve-racking experiences at business meetings thinking that his Middle Eastern background might jeopardize his work. He then talks to us about bridging the entertainment gap between the West & Middle East (6:04), how money is unevenly distributed in the Lebanese movie industry  (14:04), new age media effecting Lebanese society in a positive way (20:34), and Lebanon’s unorganised structure causing us to waste lots of time (24:06). Chady then explains the reasons behind him wanting to continuously contribute to his homeland (28:40).

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