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Written by Driss Chouika
Moroccan
cinema is retreating and it does not go
to the way it must do .This is a confirmation by the chamber of producers in
Morocco .It is true that the center of
Moroccan cinema, known of CCM organizes cinema, develops its laws and wishes with great efforts to
produce more qualified films that can be exploited and distributed everywhere
in the world ,but apparently it has failed
so far because the head of the center has no clear strategy to promote cinema nationally
,writes Driss chouika ,filmmaker and a member of the chamber of
producers in Morocco .He foresees a dark future of Moroccan cinema because of corruption
,fraud and clientelism .
JERONIMO strikes his latest coup with the "stinging and stumbling" solidarity of his cronies of the most corrupt commission in the history of the National Film Production Fund since 1980! For the last session of their mandate, they have chosen to ensure their dealers by a few hundred thousand dirhams, as the 700,000 dirhams "generously" given by a producer "comic" to benefit from the support of two mediocre films during two consecutive sessions, the 400,000 dirhams guaranteed by another producer more "generous", and the multiple cases that insistent rumor reports constantly during the last four years .
Still in the total denial of the regulations in force! Normal. When a mere teacher searching for "fresh lambs" secretively with his assistant called TOROS, a fraudelent "script-doctor", a false moviegoer, is raised to the rank of "great critic" and even "film teacher" in a higher institute, we can only expect a similar result! This is successful because it fits perfectly with Sarim Fassi Fihri's four-year-old policy of demolishing national cinema in revenge for the filmmakers, most of whom did not support him in his "businessman" fight against the former director of CCM!
Corrupt juries, corrupt commissions, the exclusion of professionals from any consultation in the management of the sector ... Normal that this leads to a clear regression of the national cinema. And the future is even more compromised! And to say that some professionals are the devil's advocate defending the director and having the minister assume all the responsibility, as if it was he who, through his corrupt management for four years, was at the origin of the disaster!
JERONIMO is the corrupted dealer who deals between the juries of reading scripts and filmmakers.
"fresh lambs" are beginners in filmmaking looking for National Film Production Fund.
