On July 2nd the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication Audiovisuelle (CSCA) rejected the request by Abdelilah Benkirane, the head of the Moroccan government. He had asked the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) to take action against those at the public television channel 2M responsible for violating the broadcasting laws by re-transmitting live Jennifer …
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The Board of Directors of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM), chaired by the Minister of Communications Mustapha El Khalfi, announced the launch of two major projects: the digitization of the national film archives (500 feature films), and the creation of a film lab to save and archive films. A tender was launched for the film …
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Morocco is currently hosting some of the filming Ang Lee’s new film “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” in Ourzazate, with American actor Vin Diesel in the role of the soldier Shroom. The film is an adaptation of Ben Fountain’s book “End of half time for Billy Lynn soldier” about a 19 year old American soldier, …
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The Moroccan private “info-tainment” channel, Medi1 TV, broadcasting in Arabic and French, has just approved an overhaul of its whole production system. The French company Videlio Preview won the contract to oversee this modernization process which will give the channel more modern production methods, and thus higher quality programmes, in line with its ambitions to …
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The Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) is organizing the 13th Tangier Festival of Mediterranean Short Film from October 5th to 10th. The programme includes a competition open to drama shorts made by film-makers from the Mediterranean in 2014 or 2015, a cinema course, press conferences about the films in competition and parallel activities. The deadline for …
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The 7th Festival International de Film Documentaire à Agadir (FIDADOC) organized by the Association de Culture et d’Éducation par l’Audiovisuel, took place from May 4th to 9th. It was sponsored by the journalist and critic Luciano Barisone, director of the Visions du Réel Festival. Exclusively for documentaries, this festival allows ordinary people, young film-makers, particularly …
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“Much Loved”, the latest film by Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May, arouses strong reactions and debate. It has just been banned in Moroccan cinemas. According to a May 25th press release from the Ministry of Communications: “The Moroccan authorities have decided not to allow the screening of the …
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