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Hassen Ferhani’s “Kilometers 60” won the €20,000 post-production prize Wednesday at Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops, a four-day fast-track program for 14 projects from Africa.
The Atlas Workshops, one of the key innovations of this year’s festival, were sponsored by Netflix and coordinated by Remi Bonhomme (pictured), program manager of the Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
“Kilometers 60,” a documentary about an elderly lady who runs a tiny café on a highway in Algeria, is described by Ferhani as a “road movie that stays in one place.” His previous feature, “Roundabout in My Head,” was a hit on the festival circuit. The helmer said that he was delighted to receive the prize and the overall experience of attending the workshop in particular in terms of the editing advice provided.
Six projects competed for the prize, with a jury formed by Match Factory’s Zsuzsi Bánkuti, Moroccan producer Saïd Hamich and Cannes Critics Week’s artistic director Charles Tesson.
The Atlas Workshops, one of the key innovations of this year’s festival, were sponsored by Netflix and coordinated by Remi Bonhomme (pictured), program manager of the Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
“Kilometers 60,” a documentary about an elderly lady who runs a tiny café on a highway in Algeria, is described by Ferhani as a “road movie that stays in one place.” His previous feature, “Roundabout in My Head,” was a hit on the festival circuit. The helmer said that he was delighted to receive the prize and the overall experience of attending the workshop in particular in terms of the editing advice provided.
Six projects competed for the prize, with a jury formed by Match Factory’s Zsuzsi Bánkuti, Moroccan producer Saïd Hamich and Cannes Critics Week’s artistic director Charles Tesson.
- 12/5/2018
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
El Gouna Film Festival hosted a special panel discussion on the role of film festivals in today’s film industry with festival directors from several international film festivals including Carthage, Tribeca, Guanajuato, Sundance and the Tallinn Black Nights.
El Gouna Film Festival’sCinegouna Platform, the film industry-oriented event created with the objective of nurturing and strengthening promising Egyptian and Arab cinema projects and filmmakers, and helping them find artistic and financial support, hosted a special panel discussion today entitled “The Role Of Film Festivals” which was moderated by international film editor of the Hollywood Reporter, Deborah Young.
The panelists included Mr. Nejib Ayed, Director General of the Carthage Film Festival, Mr. Frederic Boyer, Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival, Ms. Sarah Hoch Founder and Executive Director of the Guanajuato International Film Festival, Ms. Tiina Lokk, Founder and director of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Ms. Heidi Zwicker,...
El Gouna Film Festival’sCinegouna Platform, the film industry-oriented event created with the objective of nurturing and strengthening promising Egyptian and Arab cinema projects and filmmakers, and helping them find artistic and financial support, hosted a special panel discussion today entitled “The Role Of Film Festivals” which was moderated by international film editor of the Hollywood Reporter, Deborah Young.
The panelists included Mr. Nejib Ayed, Director General of the Carthage Film Festival, Mr. Frederic Boyer, Artistic Director of the Tribeca Film Festival, Ms. Sarah Hoch Founder and Executive Director of the Guanajuato International Film Festival, Ms. Tiina Lokk, Founder and director of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Ms. Heidi Zwicker,...
- 9/26/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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You see “Iran” and think certain things. You go to Iran and see the people, the shops, street activity, the environment, its museums and you forget the two things about it which shape your emotional reaction to it: politics and history. Being one of two Americans attending the Fajr International Film Festival makes me feel responsible for sharing my best moments with a broader public.
The Fajr International Film Festival is a gala affair, small enough to meet and share time with the many participants, both filmmakers and invitees from countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Armenia, Turkey, Japan, Mongolia and Korea (and more!). I can only think of one other film event which offered such a luxurious array of experiences to go along with film watching (when Rosskino of Russia invited 25 U.S.distributors and us to Moscow and St. Petersburg and then repeated the event for Brics countries...
The Fajr International Film Festival is a gala affair, small enough to meet and share time with the many participants, both filmmakers and invitees from countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Armenia, Turkey, Japan, Mongolia and Korea (and more!). I can only think of one other film event which offered such a luxurious array of experiences to go along with film watching (when Rosskino of Russia invited 25 U.S.distributors and us to Moscow and St. Petersburg and then repeated the event for Brics countries...
- 5/1/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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