You might be saying, “what another film festival?”

But this is film festival with a twist.

ZUMEFF started last year as a student graduation project.

What usually happens to student graduation projects after the students graduate, nothing.

But this project took on a life of its own and was adopted by a class at ZU and they put on the festival again.

Have a listen to what it is all about.

I think this is really cool. Students not some big corporate entity with a professional organizing team and deep pockets putting on a film festival but a school and a group of 15 students!

And the whole thing was pulled together is a a micro window of just over 10 weeks!

So, what is the lesson here?

1. want something done well give it to a group of busy women
2. Zayed University is the leading University in the UAE for creative talent and community engagement
3. students can do the amazing things if we create the opportunity

WOW is all I have to say!

I took my son to listen to Darren Shan at the Emirates Airlines International Literature Festival in Dubai and realized I have missed something grand!

Thanks to the power of QIK.com and my iPhone I have some bad video but great audio!

Here is what you missed, or what got me excited to go and read Darren Shan’s work.

Here is part 2 of the reading!

And the Thin Executioner reading!

And finally a piece from the series to come!

Darren Shan is a person I would love to sit and have a conversation with, he loves what he does!