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News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region

MOROCCO / Art’s Factory helps young talents

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Created by producer Siham El Faydi, the Art’s Factory’s training programme hosted 60 young artists from the Casablanca-Settat region for three months. Organized in partnership with the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, this programme helped young people aged 16 to 32 produce an animated film, a short film and the pilot for a web-series. It was …

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MOROCCO / “The Mother of All Lies” wins the Sydney Film Festival’s Official Competition

The Mother Of All Lies

Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir won the Official Competition of the Sydney Film Festival for The Mother Of All Lies. Conceived as a drama-documentary, the film explores the director’s family history and the lies told around the devastation and violence of the 1981 riots in Casablanca. Without using archival images or photographs, she meticulously recreates …

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MOROCCO / 1.6 million viewers watched the 1st episode of the documentary “Ana Bidaoui – Les Mémoires de Casablanca”

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Broadcast by 2M as part of the programme Des Histoires et des Hommes, the first episode of the documentary series attracted 1.6 million viewers. Produced by 2M and Ali n’Productions, this series, consisting of four 52-minute episodes, was written by Rita El Qessar and directed by Nourredine Lakhmari. Through interviews with historians, architects, archaeologists and …

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TUNISIA / Harga wins the Best Television Series Award at Italy’s Matera Fiction Fest

Harga

Directed by Lassaad Oueslati, the Tunisian series Harga won the Targo d’oro at the first Matera Fiction Fest in Italy, which took place from June 1st to 4th. The first edition of this international festival for television series concentrated on productions from Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Italy and France. The organisers hope it will …

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MOROCCO / New parliamentary bill for the film industry

Centre Cinématographique Marocain

The Moroccan government has drawn up a draft bill on the film and audiovisual industries. The aim is to create a legal framework enabling Moroccan film-makers to “accompany the major developments, in particular digital and technological, in the cinematographic sector” and thus create a true film industry. In particular the bill creates new powers for …

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CMCA – INA / Workshop on writing news reports using archival material

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Organized by the CMCA in tandem with INA Méditerranée, the 16th training workshop “Writing news reports using archive material” will be held from June 19th to 26th in Marseille. The workshop will make the participants aware of the region’s audiovisual heritage preserved in the archives and provide them with the skills necessary to produce journalistic …

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TUNISIA / Re-transmission of the series “Jbal Lahmar” on the Al Wataniya 1 channel

Jbal Lahmar

Following an incomplete showing of the Jbal Lahmar series, the national channel Al Wataniya 1 decided to broadcast it again from May 22nd. During Ramadan viewers were unable to watch the final four episodes of this series, sparking a lively controversy on social networks. The reason for this was a misunderstanding about the producers’ contract …

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