INTERVIEW - "The Teacher" Press Junket - Red Sea International Film Festival 2023

JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 6: (INTERVIEW) Director Farah Nabulsi talks about where she got the idea for 'The Teacher', that she wrote the draft before 2019 and got it out again during the Covid-19 pandemic, she spent that year doing drafts, during a trip to Palestine she met the lead actor Saleh Bakri and cast him as 'the Teacher', she continued to write it with him in mind, they eventually shot the film in 2022 and premiered at Toronto in 2023, at 'The Teacher' Interviews, the Red Sea International Film Festival 2023 on December 6, 2023 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Footage by Rishan Pithwa/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)