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The Association of Friends of Cinema of Tetouan (ACT) held a general assembly to renew its executive board. And this Saturday, November 13, 2021, at the National School of Fine Arts in Tetouan, in compliance with the prescriptions issued by the health authorities.
After welcoming the audience, critic and translator Abdellatif Bazia spoke about the background to the general assembly. After which, the associative actor Mohammed Hani intervened to specify the objectives of the ACT during the period to come, to encourage to face the pandemic of the coronavirus and to insist on the normal space of cinematographic projections that are the cinemas. He spoke of the harmony, coherence and exchange that reign in ACT and called for promoting the association with young executives so that it can strengthen and develop.
The former executive board then resigned and novelist and screenwriter Bachir Damouna chaired the session. A new board was unanimously elected:
- Mohamed BouissefRekab: President
- Mohammed Berrada: Deputy Chairman
- Nada Lmisri: Deputy Vice-President
- Mohammed Elhani: Secretary General
- WissalHamdach: Deputy Secretary General
- Maha El Guenni: Treasurer
Members of the new board expressed pride in the trust that members of the association have placed in it and their willingness to work and work in a spirit of responsibility. And at 7:00 p.m., Mr. Bachir Damoun declared the general assembly closed.
Founded on June 6, 1986, the ACT aims to:
- disseminate and develop cinematographic and creative interests,
- contribute to the development of a critical and objective awareness focusing on the components and aesthetics of the cinematographic phenomenon,
- create links between the cinematographic movement in Morocco and other cinematographic experiences,
- establish a framework for dialogue between the different components of the Moroccan cinematographic movement.
And to achieve these objectives, ACT has organized the Tetouan Mediterranean Film Festival since its creation, colloquiums, conferences and training in the field of the 7th art, film events in collaboration with associations and national and international bodies. with common interests. She periodically publishes the film magazine Wachma and other books and periodicals. It also produces the essay films and amateur films.
