This year, Cannes Docs has selected the Egyptian Producer, Muhammad Refaat, for its 2022 Docs-in-Progress Jury, as a prominent industry leader from the documentary world!

The long-standing CPH:DOX Forum has invited Muhammad Refaat to participate as a panelist and decision-maker, where top producers and highly acknowledged directors worldwide take the stage to pitch their projects.

DocPoint is the only festival solely dedicated to documentary films in Finland. It brings more than a hundred of the best and most talked-about creative documentary films to the screens of Helsinki.

In 2022, Docpoint chose the producer and commissioner Muhammad Refaat to be on its International Competition Jury.

The first of its kind, IDFA Forum gathers some of the strongest documentary projects currently being developed and produced globally and presents them in a five-day program of public presentations and one-on-one meetings.
As a decision-maker, Muhammad Refaat participates in this edition of the prominent forum.

IDFA Forum hosts Rough Cut Presentations in a cinema, where project teams briefly introduce their project, show an excerpt of twenty minutes, and participate in a short, moderated Q&A.

In 2021, Muhammad Refaat participated as a delegate producer with the project “The Mother of All Lies” by the Moroccon Director/Producer Asmae El Moudir.

Nordisk Panorama Forum for Co-financing of Documentaries is open to filmmakers with new documentary projects, decision-makers and experts, observers, other professionals and film school students.

Muhammad participated as an expert from AJD (Photo by Maurice Wolf for Nordisk Panorama).

Beirut Cinema Platform is a co-production platform designed to bring Arab independent producers/filmmakers, holders of feature-length film projects (documentary and fiction) with regional and international industry professionals.

Beirut Cinema Platform is a co-production platform designed to bring Arab independent producers/filmmakers, holders of feature-length film projects (documentary and fiction) with regional and international industry professionals.

A four-day immersive workshop where selected filmmakers and participants pour over case studies and dissect effective strategies for using independent film as a tool for social change.

Working with the Good Pitch Outreach team, and with the help of their fellow participants, the selected filmmakers imagine how their film could be put to the service of movements and reach audiences that matter.

The first of its kind, IDFA Forum gathers some of the strongest documentary projects currently being developed and produced globally and presents them in a five-day program of public presentations and one-on-one meetings.
As a decision-maker, Muhammad Refaat participates in this edition of the prominent forum.

As part of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), Forum RIDM offers an intensive program of professional workshops, lectures and roundtables that focus on training

As a networking platform, Forum RIDM offers business meetings that encourage the development of partnerships, help get new projects off the ground and promote sales.

Every year, the event, attended by the most influential decision-makers in the industry, draws over 400 professionals interested in innovative projects and the issues currently facing documentary makers.

Chabaka welcomes duets of African and Arab producers and directors with feature fiction and documentary film projects in the development stage. This workshop is the first step in the creation of cinematographic works. Chabaka offers selected participants the opportunity to meet industry professionals in one-on-one meetings.

Muhammad Refaat participated in Chabaka for the first time in 2018 as a commissioning editor from AJD. He had to opportunity to meet several projects from emerging African and Arab producers.

As a producer of the short animated project “Chained Prey”, Muhammad Refaat attended the forum where he pitched in front of the German producers and the Robert Bosch Stiftung Committee.

Doha Film Institute presents Qumra, an initiative that seeks to provide mentorship, nurturing, and hands-on development for filmmakers from Qatar and around the world. Since 2015, Qumra has been a one-of-a-kind professional incubator crucial to the success of filmmakers from the Arab world and beyond.

In 2018, Muhammad Refaat participated in his short animated film project “Chained Prey” as a director/producer.