Tim Smythe, CEO, Filmworks, UAE

Tim has over 20 years experience producing feature films, documentaries, commercials and television drama series around the world. Tim has also founded a number of businesses for film and video production in Dubai, including Filmworks, one of the leading production companies in the Middle East. Filmworks opened in November 1998 as a production company to service commercials for the region. In 2004, Tim was the facilitating producer on Syriana in Dubai for Warner Brothers and then in 2006 on The Kingdom for Universal Pictures which was filmed in Abu Dhabi. Tim also produced Ali F. Mostafa’s City of Life which was shot entirely in Dubai. Most recently Tim co-produced the latest film in Paramount Pictures’ Mission Impossible franchise as well as producing Djinn for Imagination Abu Dhabi.
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