This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press
The Marrakech International Film Festival announced, Thursday in the Red City, the winners of the seventh session of the “Ateliers Atlas”, the film industry program dedicated to Moroccan, Arab and African professionals, in the presence of the sponsor of this session, American director Jeff Nichols.
The “Ateliers Atlas” program awarded nine prizes, with a total value of 126,000 euros, for this session which took place from December 1 to 5.
The Atlas Awards jury for projects in post-production, composed of Grégoire Moulin (Head of International Sales – Kinology), Giona Nazzaro (Artistic Director – Locarno International Film Festival) and Malika Rabah Allah (Director – International Film Festival of Hamburg), decided to crown the film project “Aisha Cannot Fly” by Murad Mostafa (Egypt) produced by Sawsan Youssef (Egypt) with a prize worth 25 thousand euros.
The committee also decided to crown the film project “Incidents of Siege Time” by Abdullah Al-Khatib (Palestine), produced by Salah Issad (Algeria), with a prize worth 20,000 euros, and the film project “The Stars of Hope and Pain” by Cyril Aris (Lebanon), produced by George Choucair (Lebanon), worth 10,000 euros, and the film project “Bardi” by Tala Hadid (Morocco), produced by Abdel Moneim Al-Jarib (Morocco). ), receives a prize of 5,000 euros.
As for the four Atlas Awards juries for projects in development, composed of Yasmine Benkirane (director and screenwriter), Dora Bouchoucha (producer) and Philippe Popper (producer), the film project PRINCESSE TÉNÉ by Fabien Daou (Burkina Faso) and produced by Mustapha Sawadogo (Burkina) was crowned by the jury (Faso) with a prize worth 30 thousand euros, and the CHANCEUSE film project by Linda Lo (Senegal) Produced by Didar Doumihri (France), with a prize of 20,000 euros.
The committee also crowned the film project SAMIR, SPY MALGRÉ LUI by Charlotte Rabat (Syria) and produced by Coralie Dias (France), and the film project ICI REPOSE by Molly Kani (Senegal) produced by Lionel Massol, Pauline Siegland ( France) and Nkanyi Sankhe (Senegal) with a prize worth 5,000 euros each.
The ARTEKINO International Prize, awarded by the Franco-German television channel, was awarded to the film project in development “Alicante” by Lina Soualem (Algeria), produced by Omar El Kadi (Lebanon) and Nadia Turentsev (France).
The seventh session of the Atlas Workshops program brought together 340 international professionals, for a selection made up of 27 projects and films, led by a new generation of Moroccan, Arab and African filmmakers. During this year’s session, 17 projects in the development phase and 10 films in filming or post-production from 13 countries, in addition to ten participants in the Atlas platform and a certain number of Moroccan professionals, benefited from assistance special support before or during the festival period. More than 170 meetings were organized, including 78 individual consultations.
The program brought together 32 expert consultants in several specializations, such as screenwriting, character development, cinematography, production, visual effects, editing, soundtracks and distribution.
During this session, the Ateliers Atlas co-production market held more than 510 individual meetings with selected directors and producers – which is considered a record number recorded by the workshops since its creation.
It should be noted that during its seven sessions, the Atlas Workshops supported 152 projects and films, including 60 Moroccan projects and films. In recent years, numerous films that have benefited from the support of Ateliers Atlas have been selected in major international film festivals, confirming their role as a major platform for hosting film projects in the region.
