Dori Media’s New TV Series ‘Arab Labor’ Wins ‘Accolade’ Award

Dori Media Group (“Dori Media” or “DMG”) (LSE:DMG), the international media company active in the field of television, with a focus on production, distribution, broadcasting and merchandising of Telenovela, announces that its production subsidiary, Dori Media Paran, has won the ‘Award of Excellence’ in the 2008 Accolade Competition. The award was given for ‘Arab Labor’, one of Dori Media’s latest TV series, which draws a satirical portrait of Israeli Arabs living in a contradictory society dominated by Israel’s Jews.

Arab Labor, Israel’s first prime time program featuring Arab protagonists who speak in Arabic, was, at the time of broadcasting, one of Israel’s top 10 shows. The series was created by Daniel Paran, Sayed Kashua and Roni Ninio and won numerous prizes for its original, witty and intelligent depiction of a delicate reality through the use of humor. ‘Arab Labor’ won the award for Best TV series at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July 2008. In September 2007, ‘Arab Labor’ won the Sharon Amrani TV Drama award, with the kind assistance of the Makor foundation. The series was also presented at prestigious international film festivals around the world including Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London and Miami.

Nadav Palti, CEO & President of DMG, commented: “We are very honored to win once again an Accolade award this year for our TV series ‘Arab Labor’, produced by Dori Media Paran. This unique series tackles with humor the difficult subject of cultural stereotypes, integration and coexistence. Receiving this award confirms the quality and talent of our team of producers, directors and actors and highlights intercommunity issues common to many countries beyond Israel.”

The Accolade recognizes film, television and video professionals who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity, and those who produce outstanding entertainment or contribute to profound social change. Entries are judged by highly qualified professionals in the film and television industry. Information about the Accolade and a list of recent winners can be found at www.theaccolade.net.

In winning an Accolade, Dori Media joins the ranks of other high profile winners of this internationally respected award. Thomas Baker, Ph.D., who chairs The Accolade, had this to say about the latest winners, “The Accolade is not an easy award to win. Entries are received from around the world. The judges were pleased with the exceptionally high quality of entries. The goal of The Accolade is to help winners achieve the recognition they deserve.”

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Dori Media Group is an international media group that produces, distributes and broadcasts telenovelas. The group owns approximately 4,300 television hours that it sells to a wide variety of audiences in more than 50 countries. In Israel, Dori Media is the owner of Dori Media Paran and Dori Media Darset, which produce daily series and telenovelas for the Israeli market. It also owns and operates two telenovela channels, Viva and Viva Platinum. In the Israeli market, Dori Media also packages, produces and operates all of the movie channels on HOT cable television and the series channel on HOT Extra. In Indonesia, the company operates the Televiva Vision 2 channel that is devoted to telenovelas and Baby TV Vision 3 for toddlers. The Dori Media Group in controlled by Mapal Communications Ltd. one of the largest media companies in the Israel. The group is traded on the London Stock Exchange where its symbol is DMG. For more information on Dori Media, visit our corporate website at http://www.dorimedia.com/.

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