A conversation with Butheina Kazim, co-founder of the UAE's arthouse cinema, Cinema Akil. We talk programming, navigating the online and offline market, and constructing a spatial politics for cinema, independently. 

Speaker bio: Butheina Kazim is the co-founder of Cinema Akil, an independent cinema in Dubai. She has been involved in programming a number of cinema pop-ups, including Focus on the United Arab Emirates, and is the producer of the short documentary film Letters to Palestine, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (2010). She has served on the jury for the iEmmys Asia & Africa Competition, among many others, and is a member of the UAE Academy Award Committee. She has also worked as a project manager in television and radio stations in the UAE at the media conglomerates Arab Media Group and Dubai Media Incorporated.

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