Cinephilia Productions is a New York based incubator for the development of filmmakers from the Middle East and Africa through various initiatives that occupy the space between ideation and production. Founded in 2010 by film director Darine Hotait.
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Contact & details
How their work is rated
2 wins from 8 nominations across all awards
- Mostly
- short, drama, music
- Active
- 2009–2018
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 3 of 7 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Credits7
7 films
Baadarane
2025 · Film
Produced
Khaled & Nema
2024 · Film
Produced
Like Salt
2018 · Film
Produced
Beirut... Hide and Seek
2011 · Film
Produced
The Far Side of Laughter
2009 · Film
Produced
Command or Truth
2009 · Film
Produced
- 2026
It's Complicated
2026 · Film
Produced
7 titles across 18 years, averaging 0.4 a year. The last five years hold at 0.6 a year. 12 of those 18 years carry no credit on file.
Who they work with
- Darine Hotait3
- Darine Hotait3
- Short3 of 3
- Drama3 of 3
Names appearing on two or more of Cinephilia Productions’s produced titles, across the 3 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
Film offices covering New York
- NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME)New York · 30% base (40% upstate counties)
- New York State Governor's Office of Motion Picture & Television DevelopmentNew York · 30% base (40% upstate counties)
- Fort Lee Film CommissionFort Lee
- New Jersey Motion Picture & Television CommissionNewark · 30% standard; up to 35-40% with studio partner bonus
Offices near this location, and the one covering the whole state. Proximity is not jurisdiction: confirm with the office before relying on it for permits.
Other companies near New York
- Arnold Kopelson ProductionsNew York · 7 titles
- B.B. OpticsNew York · 7 titles
- BET FilmsNew York · 7 titles
- Bigel / Mailer FilmsNew York · 7 titles
- Boku FilmsNew York · 7 titles
- BTG ProductionsNew York · 7 titles
- Cataland FilmsNew York · 7 titles
- Cineguild Entertainment GroupNew York · 7 titles
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