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Alcove Entertainment is an independent film production and finance company, based in the UK and the UAE. Alcove Entertainment has occasionally acted as a distributor for its own films. The company was founded by Amina Dasmal and Robin Fox in 2005.

Company

Alcove Entertainment was co-founded by producer and UAE native Amina Dasmal and producer Robin Fox in 2005. The word ALCOVE originates from the Arabic language, Qubbah قبّة meaning ‘vault’.

In 2008, Amina Dasmal was recognized by Forbes as being one of the top 50 most influential business women in the Middle East and in 2009 was named one of the UAE's 30 under 30 in business. Amina was recently listed number 27 on Arab Business' 100 Most Powerful Women of 2011.

The first film started under the company was Cochochi, a production with Gael García Bernal

Gael García Bernal

Gael García Bernal is a Mexican film actor and director.-Early life:García Bernal was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, the son of Patricia Bernal, an actress and former model, and José Ángel García, an actor and director. His stepfather is Sergio Yazbek, whom his mother married when García Bernal was...

and Diego Luna

Diego Luna

Diego Luna is a Mexican actor known for his childhood telenovela work, a starring role in the film Y tu mamá también, and supporting roles in American films. He is also known for his roles in Rudo y Cursi and Milk. Luna also had minor roles in Frida and Before Night Falls...

's production company Canana, which won the Discovery Award at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007, in addition to the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami International Film Festival

Miami International Film Festival

The Miami International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Miami, Florida in the late winter. The film festival is sponsored by the Miami Film Society, which has been around since 1983....

in 2008. The company most recently produced Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine

The story is told from the perspective of a young man suffering from untreated schizophrenia, played by Ewen Bremner, as he tries to understand his deteriorating world. Julien's abusive father is played by Werner Herzog...

's Trash Humpers
Trash Humpers
Trash Humpers is a 2009 American independent drama "film" directed by Harmony Korine. Shot on worn VHS home video, the film features a "loser-gang cult-freak collective" and their whereabouts in Nashville, Tennessee.-Cast:-Production:...

, which was awarded the Grand Jury prize at the CPH:DOX Film Festival in 2009. They are distributing the film on DVD and VHS in the UK with Warp Films

Warp Films

Warp is one of the foremost and most respected creative independent companies, now composed of Warp Records, Warp Films and Warp Music Videos & Commercials. It is based in London, England and Sheffield, with a further office now in Melbourne, Australia...

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Alcove Entertainment is currently in post-production for The Caller
The Caller (2010 film)
The Caller is a supernatural thriller directed by Matthew Parkhill and written by Sergio Casci, starring Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer and Lorna Raver. The movie was filmed totally in Puerto Rico...

, a supernatural thriller directed by Matthew Parkhill and written by Sergio Casci, starring Rachelle Lefevre

Rachelle Lefèvre

Rachelle Lefevre is a Canadian actress. She has starred in the television series Big Wolf on Campus and had recurring roles in What About Brian, Boston Legal, and Swingtown. She played the vampire Victoria in the first two films of the Twilight saga, before being replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard...

, Stephen Moyer

Stephen Moyer

Stephen Moyer is an English actor who has starred as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood since 2008.-Early life and career:Moyer was born in Brentwood, Essex...

and Luis Guzman

Luis Guzmán

Luis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....

. It was filmed in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

and was picked up by Sony Pictures for distribution after premiering at the 2011 Berlinale Film Market.

Alcove Entertainment is currently developing a feature film based on Jessica Albarn's children's book The Boy in the Oak, of which they have already shot a feature film promo, directed by Luke Losey

Luke Losey

Luke Losey is an award winning film director, lighting designer and photographer. His visually arresting work has been seen in avant-garde, theatre and mainstream media.- Background and early life :...

, narrated by Jude Law

Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...

and with musical composition by Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects, coming to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur...

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Alcove Entertainment has made forays into theatre, beginning with the production and finance of James Fox

James Fox

James Fox, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:James Fox was born in London, England to theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the brother of actor Edward Fox and film producer Robert Fox. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actor Laurence Fox is his son. His...

's Lara & Zhivago, an adaptation of Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian language poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russia, Pasternak's anthology My Sister Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language...

's Dr. Zhivago, which ran at Pushkin House

Russian Cultural Centre (London)

Pushkin House is an organization of Russian culture in London.-The building:5 Bloomsbury Square as we see it today was built c.1703 as part of the estate of the Earl of Southampton. It was altered substantially by architect Henry Flitcroft in the 1740s; Flitcroft added the Palladian façade...

, London's Russian Cultural Centre.

Their latest production is Nina Raine

Nina Raine

Nina Raine is an English theatre director and playwright, and the only daughter of the poet Craig Raine.She graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1998 with a First in English Literature.-Career:...

's Tiger Country. Produced by Alcove Entertainment, the play was brought to London's Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in the vicinity of Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. In 2009 it celebrates its 50 year anniversary.The original theatre was...

and was the most successful play to run under Hampstead Theatre's current administration.

Filmography

The Boy in the Oak
Cochochi
The Caller
Siren
Trash Humpers
Trash Humpers
Trash Humpers is a 2009 American independent drama "film" directed by Harmony Korine. Shot on worn VHS home video, the film features a "loser-gang cult-freak collective" and their whereabouts in Nashville, Tennessee.-Cast:-Production:...
Victoria Station

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