BBC News - Hollywood glamour at Doha film festival: "It's 1730 local time and the red carpet is buzzing. The celebrities' PR agents are hurriedly briefing the arriving journalists and security guards are getting into position.
Any minute, the stars will be coming along on the closing night of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival - a collaboration between the Doha film institute and Robert De Niro's Tribeca Festival in New York.
Robert De Niro signs autographs in Doha, 30 October Robert De Niro, founder of New York's Tribeca Film Festival, was walking, talking and signing
'Keep the interviews short, so the stars can move along quickly,' one PR agent warns.
'Oh and by the way Mr De Niro is walking, not talking.'
This is not Cannes or Venice - Doha is a much smaller city in the heart of the Gulf and film festivals aren't the norm here.
But judging by the excitement in the air, the city is hungry for events like this, now in its second year.
Despite his publicist's best efforts to whizz him along the red carpet, Robert De Niro stops by.
Any minute, the stars will be coming along on the closing night of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival - a collaboration between the Doha film institute and Robert De Niro's Tribeca Festival in New York.
Robert De Niro signs autographs in Doha, 30 October Robert De Niro, founder of New York's Tribeca Film Festival, was walking, talking and signing
'Keep the interviews short, so the stars can move along quickly,' one PR agent warns.
'Oh and by the way Mr De Niro is walking, not talking.'
This is not Cannes or Venice - Doha is a much smaller city in the heart of the Gulf and film festivals aren't the norm here.
But judging by the excitement in the air, the city is hungry for events like this, now in its second year.
Despite his publicist's best efforts to whizz him along the red carpet, Robert De Niro stops by.
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