Was the joy off the charts after final yr? (right here). It was certainly.
First allow us to begin with the inductees:
Faris Abouhamad (IAA World Chairman and President 2013-17), Alain Brenas (Director of Graphic Arts abd Promoting and the Faculty of Cinema at ALBA), Elie Kai (Founding father of MIS), Nabil Kazan (IAA Honorary Life Member), Ramzi Raad (Founding father of TBWARAAD), Elias Hanna Al Rahbani (Composer), Rafic Saadeh (Founding father of Horizons Holdings), Fadi Kalim Salameh (President CEO of MCN Holding), Jean-Pierre Sikias (Founding father of Laser Movies), Alex Slim (IAA Lebanon Board Member 1995-1997), Raja Trad (Chairman & CEO Publicis Groupe MENA).
I feel the organizers discovered from among the points final yr – no neighing horses in movies, no individuals claiming that the litmus check of the success of an inductee was working with them, and no extraordinarily prolonged speeches from sons who didn’t point out their inductee father (no names you understand who you all are). As a matter of reality, speeches had been very quick (not even minimize with the Oscars orchestra!), completely on level, truly fairly emotional (OK, we didn’t get a redux of Josiane Boulos virtually shedding it in crying like final yr although), and trilingual (Arabic, French, and English however the viewers was refined sufficient to get all of them). One can perceive the large work the “Council of Judges” needed to do (Naji Boulos, Roni Jazzar, Dani Richa, Georges Jabbour, Joe Ayache, and Naji Irani) to chop the potential quantity inductees as final yr there was a backlog.
After all, emotionally, final yr with the late Walid Azzi and the unimaginable Farid Chehab being inducted the emotional issue was too excessive for me. Nonetheless, if I’m to provide one main challenge with this yr, it will be – consider it or not – the principle dish within the menu (that duo filet de boeuf et poulet doesn’t maintain a candle to final yr’s no matter it was “sur pave de saumon”).
And apparently, I heard – reside throughout the night “oh however final yr was higher”, and “oh however this yr is means higher”. So during which camp do I fall?
Contemplating I’m introverted, extraordinarily so truly by nature (do not consider the hype or the picture I challenge), seeing individuals who knew me after I was extremely younger (hiya Hanna!), seeing somebody I like dearly (hiya Farid!), seeing connections I converse to on the web however by no means met (hiya Krix, George and Rami!), having facet conferences to speak store (hiya Ghada, Geoana, and Ali!), seeing IAA members regardless of them working the present (hiya Joe!) and with the assistance of the – like final yr – unimaginable wine, guess who had a significantly better time than final yr?
Responsible as charged.
And on to the following yr certainly. Simply allow us to repair the principle dish haha!
