The Red Sea International Film Festival's new head of international programs discusses the exciting opportunity to champion Asian, African and Arab storytelling — and why Óliver Laxe’s critically acclaimed 'Sirāt' is the film she’s most eager to watch with the local audience.

I had to get a team together and figure out what we could do with the existing structure. By the time I came on board, it was just about trying to bring new ideas and see what we could work with.” Halligan brought in an entirely new programming team to the festival,

Alba played Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman in two of the Fantastic Four films alongside Chris Evans (who played Johnny Storm/The Human Torch ), Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic), Michael Chiklis (Ben Grimm/The Thing) and Julian McMahon (Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom).