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Amina Dasmal is half-Emirati and half-British. She studied film in Los Angeles, and then established Alcove Entertainment with Robin Fox in 2005. She produced Avi Korine and Richard Ayoade’s The Double, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Richard Ayoade.
Alcove Entertainment was co-founded by producer and UAE native Amina Dasmal [1] [2] and producer Robin Fox [3] in 2005. Alcove Entertainment produced The Double, a comedy co-written and directed by BAFTA-award nominated [4] Richard Ayoade and co-developed and co-financed by Film 4.
Amina Dasmal is known for The Double (2013), The Caller (2011) and Siren (2010).
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Apr 11, 2014 · The only Emirati working in the international film industry, Amina Dasmal and her business partner Robin Fox produced Richard Ayoade’s The Double, which premiered at Toronto last year and is...
Amina Dasmal. Designation: Chairperson of Alcove Entertainment. Dasmal grew up in the UAE and was always interested in film. However, her ambition looked likely to remain a dream unrealised. Even as a child, Dasmal realised there were few to no opportunities available in the industry in the Middle East.
The Double is a 2013 British black comedy thriller film written and directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. It is based on the 1846 novella The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, about a man driven to breakdown when he is usurped by a doppelgänger. [3] .
Amina Dasmal, who runs an LA-based production company, says there has never been a better time to be a UAE filmmaker.
