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Amanda Palmer was born on 17 May, 1976 in Australia, is a Film and media executive, producer, journalist. Discover Amanda Palmer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

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Occupation Film and media executive, producer, journalist
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 17 May, 1976
Birthday 17 May
Birthplace Australia
Nationality Australia

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2019

Palmer led this endeavour, with the festival attracting 5,000 people on opening night. Shortly after, Palmer spearhead the building of Qatar’s first international independent cultural organization dedicated to film, the Doha Film Institute (DFI) founded and chaired by Sheikha Al Mayassa, which was officially launched in May 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival alongside an ambitious commitment to fund Arab films, which included regional grants for award-winning Middle Eastern films: Hawi (Ibrahim El Batout), A Man of Honour (Jean Claude Codsi) and Where Do We Go Now? (Nadine Labaki).

During her tenure, Palmer also built teams for DFI's year-round strategy and initiatives which included community outreach programs, professional mentoring programs to develop local film talent; year round film programming of independent films in the country; setting up Qatar’s first in-house content driven film website, driven by year round social media campaigns. Palmer’s last project was the Gulf Development Unit (GDU), appointing Qatari filmmaker Mahdi Ali Ali to focus on Qatari filmmakers. Palmer also managed high-level relationships that included industry legends and cultural and educational partnerships like Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Enterprises, Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation and Mira Nair's Maisha Labs while also working closely with Qatar's government, especially the Ministry of Culture.

2012

In July 2012, Palmer resigned from her DFI Executive Director role to continue her own pursuits.

2011

At DFI, Palmer oversaw three TEDx events, the most significant being TEDxSummit in April 2011 in Qatar, the first event of its kind.

Meanwhile, Palmer also led three international and community-minded Doha Tribeca Film Festivals (DTFF) which included an Arab film competition for documentary and narrative films. A new award was added in 2011 for local Qatar filmmakers, known as ‘Made in Qatar’.

At Doha Film Institute, Palmer set up and managed the Film Financing Division that supported over 70 local, regional and international films including Qatar's first international co-production Jean-Jacques Annaud's Black Gold starring Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Tahar Rahim, Mark Strong which was number one in the UAE box office in 2011. Palmer oversaw DFI's co-productions on additional projects including Salma Hayek and Participant Media's feature adaptation of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet; Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which opened the 2012 Venice Film Festival and played at festivals in Toronto, London and Doha; Kanye West's Cruel Summer “seven screens” installation which premiered at Cannes in 2012 — filmed entirely in Qatar, including 100 local extras and featuring Qatar's first woman in a lead role, a media student credited as ‘Sara’; and acclaimed Lebanese director, Ziad Doueiri’s The Attack — screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival and many other films which were set for release in 2013.

2009

Palmer served as the Executive Director of Doha Film Institute (DFI), an organisation she set up on behalf of Qatar's Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, as well as running the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) from 2009 to 2012.

2007

In April 2007, Palmer was asked to assist Qatar to develop a film festival and film industry, based on educating, training and inspiring local film culture and contribute to the building of Qatar’s long term film industry, playing a role similar to that of Qatar-created media channel, Al Jazeera, which had become instrumental in building an independent broadcaster for the Arab world ten years earlier.

The festival was a cultural partnership with Tribeca Enterprises which she managed from 2007 and launched with the first festival in 2009. More than 5,000 guests watched the opening night film and 50,000 local and international attendees over the five-day festival event, an unprecedented success in Qatar for this kind of film event.

2006

From 2006 to 2011 Palmer was also Head of Entertainment at Al Jazeera English and created, produced and presented flagship programs, including the cultural travel series “48” and flagship specialist film program, The Fabulous Picture Show, which was still broadcast in 2012 to global audiences.

2001

Shortly after, Palmer relocated to London to pursue her international career, first joining CNN London's Business International, then The Music Room. Shortly after, she also earned the coveted role as European bureau chief and foreign correspondent based in London for Seven Network in 2001, producing daily news and current affairs and travelled to the US to cover events shortly after the September 11 attacks in New York City. Palmer joined Associated Press Television in 2003, during the coverage of the second Iraq War. In 2005, she joined Al Jazeera English as Head of Entertainment and went on to create, produce and direct the flagship international feature programs, The Fabulous Picture Show and the popular cultural travel series, 48, which saw her produce specialist programming from 16 countries, including Syria, Chad, and Bosnia, and was broadcast regularly to millions of global viewers.

1996

In 1996, Palmer was among ten global journalists selected to take part of CNN's prestigious International Professional Program based at the Atlanta headquarters for two months, launching her foray into global content and international journalism.

1976

Amanda Palmer (born 1976) is an Australian-English media and film executive and international journalist, whose 18-year-career in film and media entertainment, content creation and entertainment platforms has spanned Australia, Britain, United States and the Middle East.