The founder of Italia Film was one of the first to begin operations in the Gulf and helped bring numerous films to the region.
Giuseppe Vincenti, a pioneer in the Middle East film industry who helped revolutionize distribution in the region, has died. He was 92.Vincenti launched Italia Film in Lebanon in 1962, turning it into one of the region’s biggest independent film distributors, and Disney’s key Middle East partner.
Vincenti got an early break at the 1970 Cannes Film Market, where he heard from the trades that former exhibition, distribution and production giant National General Pictures had announced a slate of major movies. Hoping to get a meeting with its then president ofdistribution, Bobby Myers, he was told he wouldn’t be free for a week.
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