News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
“Tournez, mesdames!” (Make films, ladies) said Alice Guy-Blaché, the film industry’s first woman director, in 1914. A century later, women directors continue to enrich our way of looking at the world. They fight, invent, shatter stereotypes. And their films, full of humour, fury or impertinence, help us discover other realities, other truths. Women film-makers are …
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Morocco is the base location for Larry Charles’ new film “Army of One” with American actor Nicolas Cage in the lead role. This new comedy is based on the true story of Gary Faulkner, nicknamed “Mountain Rambo”, a former prisoner of Colorado who sets off alone to hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. He …
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Sarim Fassi Fihri, head of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain, announced a record investment in film and television productions shot in Morocco in 2014. 38 foreign productions were made there: 27 feature films (Mission Impossible 5, American Sniper, Exodus, Queen of the Desert) and 11 series (Transporter, Odyssey). In all, 1.17 billion dirhams were generated by …
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The series “L’Couple” directed by Amir Rouani and broadcast on 2M during Ramadan will not have a third season. The series centred on a Moroccan couple in their sixties, Lhaj Kabbour and Chaibia, going about their everyday life in a humorous way. Hassan El Fad, the actor who plays the character of Lhaj Kabbour, said …
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“Jazirat Al Kanz” is the new programme from 2M, on air since February 24th. It’s the Moroccan version of a popular French game-show “Fort Boyard”, already adapted in many countries. Filmed entirely in the famous Fort Boyard near La Rochelle in France during the summer 2014, it consists of ten weekly 52-minute prime-time slots. Several …
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At a press conference on March 10th, the M24 Media Group announced the Tunisian launch of Maghreb24 TV, dedicated to music and entertainment. It will be transmitted on the Nilesat satellite. The programme director, Wahbi Ben Rhouma, said the schedule will include music videos and entertainment programmes of less than 30 minutes. The channel will …
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The only one of its kind in the Middle East, the Gulf countries and North Africa, the Arab Festival of Radio and Television is celebrating its 16th year between May 11th and 16th in the seaside resort of Hammamet, 65 kilometres south of Tunis. The Festival is organized by the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), …
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