Adil Lasry’s cultural cinematic project abondoned by Morrocan diplomats in Bologna and Rome ( Italy )

By Allal El Alaoui

 Adil lasry is a smart Moroccan guy, eager to show Moroccan culture via cinematic works in Bologna. He is now facing mechanical refusals by conspiratory mentality from the ministry of Al jaliya Maghrebia and also from diplomats who are uninterested to meet Adil and as mater of fact   ignore   Adil’s dream; that is to show to the Italians the true events of Moroccan artistry via movies.

Adil is spearheading an association in Bologna called AlMI and he intends to open the first Moroccan film Festival in Bologna this week the 24 th and 25^th of may 2013.he has been around Italy facing rejects and refusal of Moroccan institutions there namely from Driss Rochdi the genral consulate of Bologna and Hassan Ayoub the ambassador of Kingdon of Morocco in Rome.

Fortunately Mr lasry  has only  succeeded to get moral and logistical support from SNRT and CCM which have recently signed with Adil Lasry conventions as to work for cultural and cinematic exchanges between Rabat and Bologna.By the way, The University of Bologna, known of its ancient teachings and knowledge, has taken the ball of fire from Adil just to realize Adil’s dream: that’s simply to present new looks of Moroccan thinking through television and cinema .

  Adil Cinema by allal

Chi Siamo ALMI . First Moroccan Film Festival In Italia ( Bologna )

برعاية جامعة بولونيا بإيطاليا و بتعاون من الشركة الوطنية للإذاعة و التلفزة المغربية و المركز السينمائي المغربي و بتنسيق مع المجتمع المدني تنظم جمعية العمال المغاربة بإيطاليا المهرجان الأول لسينما المغربية بإيطاليا و ذالك أيام 24 و25 ماي بمدينة بولونيا.

  Film List Bis by allal

The organizing committee

administrative Director
Adil Lasry

Director of Communications
Dario Adam

scientific Commission

Monica from the auction - Department of Art - University of Bologna

Michele Fadda - Department of Art - University of Bologna

Abdelrahim Aboualmawahib - The National Society of Radio-Television of Morocco - SNRT

Paola Rudan - Research Fellow, Department of history, culture and civilization

Abdellah Zantou - Secretary of the Workers Moroccans in Italy - ALMI

Benhadou Naima - Expert in Mediation

Secretariat:
Laura De Ronzo
Ahmed Safrioui

technician
Pierpaolo Dominici
graphic
A. Mohssin

Coordination and logistics
Kaltoum Razrazi Caruso
Bouchaib krakchi
Allal El Alaoui
Abdelouafi

Bologna celebrates Moroccan cinema next week via AlMI

Adil Lasri 

The Will by Allal E lAlaoui in ZIFF 2013 SELECTION ( Tanzania)

ZIFF 2013 SELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT

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ZIFF 2013 SELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT The 16th ZIFF official selection has just been announced. A total of 80 films are featured in 4 categories: ZIFF Competition, Sembene Prize, Bongo Movies, Out of Competition. The festival kicks off on 29th June until 7th July. Here's the complete selection of ZIFF 2013 films including the country and the director for easy reference. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL FILMMAKERS- FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO THE SELECTED FILMS IN A FEW DAYS. IN ZIFF COMPETITION 100 Bucks short fiction Oshosheni Hiveluah Namibia A Story About Wendy short fiction Sean Hodgkinson Trinidad and Tobago Adamt Sembene Zelalem Woldemariam Ethiopia Al Wassia short fiction Allal El Alaoui Morocco Atate Na Panya Animation Anaeli Kihunrwa Tanzania Between Friends fiction M. Omar Jackson Trinidad & Tobago Blitz Patrollie Fiction feature Andrew Wessels South Africa Bobby short fiction Nehdi Barsaoui Tunisia Brotherly Love short fiction Choice Skinner USA Burning Nests fiction Shahram Maslakhi Iran and Iraq Calling Home short fiction Inna Kenya Camera Women Documentary Karima Zoubir Morrocco  Chairman And The Lion documentary Peter Biella USA/Tanzania Children Of Troumatron Fiction Feature Harrikrisna  & Sharvan Anenden- Mauritius Death Metal Angola documentary Jeremy Xido USA & Angola Death Of Time fiction Ali Molaghoulipor Iran Dialemi short fiction Nadine Otsobogo Gabon Dragonfly's Pond fiction Mohammedreza Arab Iran Drama Consult documentary Dorothee Wenner Germany Elelwani Fiction feature Ntshaveni Wa Luruli South Africa Everything We Want documentary Beatrice Moller Germany Fluorecent Sin short fiction  Amirah Tajdin Kenya Forerunners documentary Simon Wood UK Gangster Project Documentary Teboho Edkins South Africa Garifuna In Peril fiction Ali Allie & Ruben Reyes USA/ Honduras Geuko short fiction Peter Mbwago Tanzania Gog Helen Fiction feature Adze Ugah South Africa Golchehreh fiction Vahid Mousain Iran Gun To Tape documentary David Forbes Kenya Half An Hour Later fiction Mr. Lotfi Iran Hasaki Ya Suda short fiction Cedric Ido Burkina Faso  Haunted Souls short fiction Godwin Otwoma Uganda In Gods Land documentary Pankaj Rishi Kumar India Inspiration From Zanzibar With Love documentary Salim Mwandoro Tanzania Joy, Its Nina documentary Jane Thrbuurn UK/Nigeria King Naki And The Thundering Hooves documentary Tim Wege South Africa Kinshasa Wickedland documentary Dovglas Douglas DRC/ Belgium Kivuto short fiction Sesonga Poupoune Rwanda Land Of Dagon- World Heritage In Peril documentary Gregor Lutz Germany Leo Fiction feature Jinna Mutune Kenya Lion Souls documentary Manu Gerosa Zimbabwe, Italy Little One Fiction feature Darrell Roodt South Africa Lumberjack animation Pawel Debski Poland Mama C: Urban Warrior In The African Bush documentary Joanne Hershfield USA Masumbuko Na Mfalme Mambo animation Mohd M. Omari Tanzania Mchumia Juani Animation Anaeli Kihunrwa Tanzania My Shoes short fiction Anis Lassoued Tunisia My Zanzibar: Passing On Cultural Heritage Documentary Feisal Malik Kenya Ndutu short fiction Felipe Del Olmo & Daniel Vallendor Spain No Problem!6 Month With The Barefoot Grandmamas documentary Yasmin Kidwai Uganda/India Pieces Of Lives, Pieces Of Dreams documentary Hanid Benanra Algeria Pirate Fisheman In Southafrica documentary Soren Christen Sen South Africa Precipice short fiction Julius Amedume Ghana/UK Shirin Was A Canary fiction Darod Tohidparast Iran Sobukwe - A Great Soul Documentary Mickey Madoda Dube South Africa Someone Wanna Talk To You fiction Monouchehr Hadi Iran Swirl In Bamako fiction Philippe Mali Tale Of The Box fiction Mark Mazonde Zimbabwe Tamar short fiction Zambia The Chebeya Affair Documentary Thierry  Michel Belgium The Dew Drop fiction Abhivan Tiwari India The Fall short fiction Edgar Ngelela Tanzania The Last Fishing Boat Fiction feature Shemu Joyah Malawi The Lost Number fiction Kester Nsirim Nigeria  The Silent Crime Fiction feature Guillaume Komi Ozou Togo The Teachers Country documentary Benjamin Leers Germany The Ugandan fiction Patrick Sekeyaya Uganda Try short fiction Joel Heinhali Namibia Wavumba documentary Jerien Van Velzen Netherlands Yellow Fever animation Ngendo Mukii Kenya/UK BONGO MOVIES COMPETITION (more films to be added) Crush fiction Issa Mbura Tanzania Lost Journey to Nowhere Fiction Sajni Srivastava Tanzania IN SEMBENE OUSMANE PRIZE COMPETITION 1.     Between Friends fiction M. Omar Jackson Trinidad & Tobago 2.     Brotherly Love short fiction Choice Skinner USA 3.     Camera Women Documentary Karima Zoubir Morrocco 4.     Chairman And The Lion documentary Peter Biella USA/Tanzania 5.     Children Of Troumatron Fiction Feature Harrikrisna  & Sharvan Anenden- Mauritius 6.     Garifuna In Peril fiction Ali Allie & Ruben Reyes USA/ Honduras 7.     Haunted Souls short fiction Godwin Otwoma Uganda 8.     Land Of Dagon- World Heritage In Peril documentary Gregor Lutz Germany 9.     Mama C: Urban Warrior In The African Bush documentary Joanne Hershfield USA 10.  No Problem!6 Month With The Barefoot Grandmamas documentary Yasmin Kidwai Uganda/India 11.  Pirate Fisheman In Southafrica documentary Soren Christen Sen South Africa 12.  Tamar short fiction Zambia 13.  The Last Fishing Boat Fiction feature Shemu Joyah Malawi 14.  The Silent Crime Fiction feature Guillaume Komi Ozou Togo 15.  The Teachers Country documentary Benjamin Leers Germany 16.  Wavumba documentary Jerien Van Velzen Netherlands OUT OF COMPETITION Alam Laysa Lana documentary Mahdi Fleifel UK/Lebanon/ Denmark All Rajeem short fiction Amer Al Kamel Jordan Bicycle short fiction Rzgar Husein Ahmed Iraq Los Rockers, Rebellions Rock And Roll documentary Matias Pimochet Chile Murk Light short fiction Yasir Abd Noor Shakir Al Yasiri Iraq The African Baluchi Trance Dance documentary Behnaz Mirzai Canada The Chebeya Affair Documentary Thierry  Michel Belgium Up You Black Air short fiction Bodinaux Allielien Belgium

every body talking about your script , then you know it sells

Derek Haas:  A lot of Hollywood is just getting material into people’s hands that can do something with it. I think when you know you have something good is when every single person that reads it wants to be a part of it. What happened was Michael was working, he was Robert Rodriguez’s assistant on this movie, The Faculty when we finished and he didn’t want to give the script to Robert. He was practically living with him while they were editing the movie and he didn’t want to be just that guy. So he ended up giving it to his boss on the movie which was his post-production supervisor. She loved it and wanted to be a part of it. She gave it to a producer’s assistant. The producer’s assistant gave it to this producer. The producer called me in Atlanta when I had no idea what was going on and said, “how would you guys feel about Brad Pitt being the lead”, and of course, my heart’s just like, “what?”, and in retrospect you can’t believe how impossible this chain of events is but a week later Brad Pitt was attached to the movie and that’s how it sold. That’s my advice, if you can get Brad Pitt attached to your movie, then it’ll sell.e were about four years out of school at this point and again, I’d been working in advertising and Michael had started cutting movies and we just said instruction be damned. Let’s break the rules, let’s not adhere to this whole, what am I trying to say? With that script, we just both said, rules be damned. You always hear write what you know and I grew up in the suburbs and Michael, too, and write what you know works if your dad is in the CIA or your mom’s a mafia boss or something but for us we said, “Screw write what you know, write what you think is cool.” Hopefully what we think is cool is what the rest of the audiences will think is cool so we broke the form, we wrote camera moves in which is a big no-no when you’re learning to write scripts. We zigged every time we thought we would zag and we zagged every time we thought we would zig. It was a quirky thing, the timing was right, this was a few years after Pulp Fiction when studios were seeking those kind of down and dirty crime centered, quirky scripts so everything just hit at the right time. That advice of know all of the rules so that you can break them, is really what helped us. 

The first ShortFilm festival of Tetouan spearhead by Mustapha Chaabi

The White pigeon as it is called ,Tetouan is making its cinematic  rendez-vous supported by Al Jamma Al Mahaliya  with short film directors around the Sherifian Kingdon .The Film Festival Of Tetouan is also inviting international cinema spearhead by ongoing cinema- goer Mr Chaabi Mustapha who has directed nearly about 25 documentary films and now he is introducing his short film called  ‘ Al Kods Abnadem “ along with SNRT film makers  as Hakim Bidawi “ Tefel Al Komama”  and Al Wassia” by Allal El Alaoui  . 

DIFF launches encyclopedia of Arabic cinema

DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO LAUNCH ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARABIC CINEMA

To celebrate its landmark 10th edition, the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) today launched an online poll of the region's most prominent film critics, writers, novelists, academics, and other cultural figures, who will collectively nominate the best 100 films of Arab cinema from its beginnings to the present day. The resulting 100 films will be documented in an Arabic-English cinematic encyclopedia, to be released during the festival's 10th anniversary edition, which will take place December 6-14, 2013. DIFF Chairman Abdulhamid Juma stressed the importance of this unique project, the first of its kind in the Arab world: "The encyclopedia project provides an exceptional opportunity to identify the glorious milestones in the history of Arab cinema as judged by today's most prominent cultural commentators. Since DIFF's inception, our core mandate has been to support and nurture Arabic cinema, and we yearly recognize its greatest practitioners with our Lifetime Achievement Awards programme. A poll of this nature is key in documenting, promoting and preserving the Arabic cinematic legacy, for Arabs and non-Arabs alike." More than 1000 cultural specialists, including a select handful of non-Arab experts in the area, will be invited to participate via a special voting system, whereby each will select the 10 most important feature or documentary films in the history of Arab cinema. The list of candidate films will include all Arab cinema productions in all Arab countries, as well as co-productions between Arab and foreign filmmakers, providing the subject matter relates to "Arab" themes and the director is of Arab descent. DIFF Artistic Director, Masoud Amralla Al Ali, praised the project as an important reference for the new generation of Arab filmmakers, saying: "The scope of this exercise is certain to turn up some forgotten gems of Arab cinema, and will forge a new relationship between Arab filmmakers and their audiences' a renewed recognition of the importance and relevance of regional films. It also reinforces a strong relationship between cinema of the past and present, giving an important cinematic and historical context to movements and important figures that continue to influence us today." The Cinematic Encyclopedia will list the best 100 films, accompanied by scholarly and critical text from the Arab world's most prominent critics, including historical data, information on the conditions of the productions, and background on the key creatives that made the films possible. "This project is based on transparency and free voting, making it a compilation of multiple voices and views. With the Encyclopedia, we are moving away from single reviews based on the specific tastes or biases of one critic toward a multiplicity of intellectual and cultural currents from all around the Arab world, said the Ziad Abdullah, DIFF's Manager of Content Development. "I urge all those invited to vote to strongly contribute. The more participants we can amass, the more comprehensive a view we will be able to compile of Arab cinema and its historical reality." The finished Encyclopedia will be released during the DIFF 2013, and will be distributed to international and regional libraries as an indispensable reference to the study of Arab cinema.