Moroccans prisoners of the Cinematic cave

We Moroccans are new to visual and cinematic culture, and when we go to cinema halls, we are like prisoners of the Platonic cave who were forced to remain silent in front of the shadow shadow reflected by the wall screen. We may be struck by the light and imagination of the screen inside the dark cinema hall, just as our fate would be if we left the hall and it was exposed. Our eyes are blinded by the light of reality. The biggest problem posed by the history of cinema is its relationship with reality. The movement of images gives the impression that we are facing a living and real reality. Christian Metz, a cinema semiology theorist, says: “The impression of reality” as raised by cinema transforms the system of représentation into a direction of more active reception of unconscious desire.

Rania in Aicha by Sanaa El Alaoui

Sanaa El Alaoui; the director of the short fikm called Aicha will invite Rania as a second role mainly playing in the publicity of her film . the director will work good crew from Morocco and Poland .

Crew of Aicha by Sanaa El Alaoui

Sanaa will tackle a controversail matter in her short film called Aicha . Sanaa is inspired by the story of Amila Filali a Moroccan girl born in the city of Larache. She was 16 years old when she committed suicide by consuming rat poison in 2012, after she was forced to marry her rapist in accordance with Article 475 of Moroccan law, which allows the rapist to avoid prosecution by marrying his victim. This incident drew a lot of attention to Moroccan law, and many citizens expressed their desire to change the law. Local human rights groups also called for the repeal of Article 475 of Moroccan law, which criminalizes rape but prevents prosecution if the rapist agrees to marry her. His victim. Two years after the suicide, Parliament decided to abolish Article 475; It was actually canceled in 2014.

screenwriting by Allal El Alaoui: 6

Talking again about structure ,each guru has his or her point of view on this matter . let's take the 22 steps structure techniques that a screenwriter shlould know or practice in writing . To know more about this technique , one must have a book called the anatomy of story written by john story . in this book ,John explains all these steps with wit and intelligence. So ; let 's publish another video in MOroccan dialect in order to talk about this matter.

screenwriting by Alla El Alaoui

Structure is screenwriting and sscreenwriting is structure . It is based on characther motivations and that this character has to have a wound that motivates him to act ahead . Character has also to be flawed and active and this is what we call a three-dimentional character . A screenplay, also called a script, is a written document that includes everything that is seen or heard on screen: locations, character dialogue, and action. From the first draft to its final incarnation, a screenplay tells a story. However, it is also a technical document that contains all the information needed to film a movie.So , let's contine to explain structure via a video in Moroccan dialect .

Ranveer Singh and Nora Fatehi soon work together

Nora Fatehi born February 6, 1992 in Toronto, Canada, is a Canadian-Moroccan dancer, model, actress, singer and producer known for her work in the Indian film industry.

Ranveer Singh is an Indian Bollywood actor. He enjoyed success from his first film, Band Baaja Baaraat. In a very short time, he became a real star and starred in commercial successes like Ladies vs Ricky Bahl or critical successes like Lootera. Finished with those gaudy and strange movies in India named the masala films (1) ,New Indian cinema lightens the world with its beautiful stars and show-business and even locally Moroccan bollyphiles are continuously becoming more Hindi fans than ever, writes ALLAL EL ALAOUI . Arrived at the Golden hotel which faces a rising millinum town of Morocco called Salé (2) , Bina Paul a south Indian woman of Kerala, which is a magical place in Asia said to me why Salé film festival has not chosen an Indian film for competition this year 2006. Bina Paul is an artistic director and member of Kerala International film festival in the south of india . She came to Salé to become a member of jury of the international women film festival . Salé was famous of her cinema theatres such as Collisé, El Malaki and opera . Although some of them were used as cinéclubs in the seventies especially the Opera theatre for cultural reasons and also for the promotion of cinema and cinemagoers ,animated by Nour Eddine Sail himself (3) , other cinemas just could not resist to project Indian movies just like Dosti and Mother India By Mahoob . Just after independence named proudly, the goden age,Hindi films were dubbed into Moroccan slang(Arabic) by local pioneer artists namely Ibrahim Essaih (4) , Hamidoo ; Said Bachir and others. Ibrahim Essaih was right to dubb indian movies that time, because the majority of the Moroccans were analphabets . Local Rabat intellectuals keep making pressure on Moroccan governement to increase the budget for cultural purpuses.Yet,movies were nationally done in a shy manner, 2 films per year until the recent fund policy,which CCM, the national center of cinema has made ;14 to 30 fims per year. Hindi cinema has been a major point of reference for Indian culture in this century. It has shaped and expressed the changing scenarios of modern India to an extent that no preceding art form could ever achieve. Hindi cinema has influenced the way in which people perceive various aspects of their own lives. With one mighty leap, Bollywood has gone from melodrama to youthful reality, reports Kevin Maher,The Times journalist In England.It is true that filmmakers in India have been plagiaristic to the extent that even Hollywood would remake Munnabhai MBBS and becomes Gangsta MD ;an American movie by Chris Tucker. The seven Samurai by Akira kurasawa became Sholay in 1975 by Bollywood legend Ramesh Sippy . Thanks to Ismail Noormohamed Abdul-Rehman , known as Ismail Merchant, indian cinema becomes worldwild and because of his great talent as a producer and director , every good actor in the west would love to work with him . This man sells dreams of elegance and beauty, of dignity and propriety, of literate splendour and intellectual stature and above all, of traditional reverence and venerable taste,Lubna aziz writes on Al Ahram weekly.This seems contrary to the thoughts of Moulay Driss Jaiidi ,a local cinema critic who states that Hindi movies have bad taste on Moroccan cinemagoers . Unlike CIFF , Cairo International film festival and carthage film festival , FIFM,the International film festival in Marrakesh, focuses only on European and American cinema and badly to Asiatic films , It is time that Grand Maghreb mainly Morocco, because of its arising bollyphiles who watch nearly 80 new indian films per year out of 350 imported films , confirmed to me by Kamal Mghazli, an employee of CCM, Moroccan national center of cinema based in Rabat spearheaded by Nour eddine Sail. India now is one of the largest film producing nations in the world, with 1,013 films in 2001 and some 4.5 billion rupees in revenues in 2000 through exports, films are subject to various taxes (entertainment tax, new taxation release tax, show tax and property tax). Interviewed with a house of film distribution , Amal films, a distributing house based in casablanca has stated that although the prevailing of CDs and DVDs , Bollywood cinema remains poweful in consuming and still welcomed in Morocco and especially now television holding SNRT and 2M are interested to diffuse films such as DEVDAS , LAGAAN and VEER-ZAARA highly praised by international critics around the world. I don’t know what Moulay Driss Jaiidi says about recent statistics of Bollywood Box office made by CCM that in 2003 Morocco imported 378 Hindi films , the number of fans were 3 783602 and ticket revenues were 36101026. Although CCM confirms that these stastics are not fully complete , but in 2006 up to june we had 264 Hindi films and ticket revenues were 581800. Moulay Dris Jaiidi would love to see these numbers increasing in other cinema importations just like US hollywood and french cinema , but at least we could be honest and realistic to the Moroccan Bollyphiles. Sometimes ships don’t head for the direction it wants , even in America and very often, Oscar nominees and winners are selected on the basis of considerations other than strictly artistic merit. This means, good cinema suffers, writes Gataman Bhaskaran. Prabably we won’t see any Hindu film being selected on competition this year in Marrakech 2006 just because there are still some constipated mentalities that favor American and Eureopean films than any good indian films . FIFM, bureau de la fondation (5) should think this matter seriously about Bollywood cinema because apparently the cinemagoers and producers already think of Morocco as a magical place to shoot future films instead of making them in Swisland .This European country makes heavy taxes on commecials films favored by the legendary producer Mukesh Bhatt (6) . Besides, Morocco is still open to all Indian producers to work by showing easy policy to show-business .CCM has now two recorded clips ,one is NAACH produced by Varma corporation limited,shot around Tangiers, Marrakesh,Agadir ,Essaouira and the second is HALKI NEEND/SARU produced by Corner pocket films ,shot in Marrakesh ans Essaouira . Quentin taratino and Micheal moore , famous and respected filmmakers in America ,encourage to pirate their films, unlike Amitabh Bachchan, a mega-star and ambassador of IIFA ; international indian film academy , disagrees about hacking films and resumes that this matter becomes a major problem and it is difficult to solve . thanks to Free market and Internet, cinephiles now enjoy to have millions of good films with good quality at home including the Indian ones.However, CCM locally keeps an eye on outlaw CD and DVD dealers Derb Rallef (7) in casablanca and swika (8) in Rabat ,and recently CCM Have ceised 400,000 CDS and DVDS containing all new hacked genres of International cinema including Bollywood films. CCM intends to fight against films hackers and hopefully cinema theatres will be open again. Salé itself suffers a lot of cinema theatres being closed including Dawliz complexes (9) owned by a Moroccan filmmaker,Souhail Ben Barka. Now, in Salé there is only one cinema open , found in a popular ghetto called EL WAD (10) . This cinema theatre is called Hollywwod and ironically accepts only bollywood movies. Salé women festival was unlucky this year to have an indian film in competition but it could have thought only one of those three womenish films that deal with ‘ modern feminism’ in India traditions namely Mohra 1994, Mother India, made in 1957 by Mehboob and Mirch Masala, made in 1989 by Ketan Mehta. Unlike Amitath Bachan who works on commercial films Jaya Bachchan, his wife ,participates only in serious films ; starring in Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar (The Big City 1963), who is influenced by Neo-realism cinema « Pather Panchali » .This type of cinema is called art films in India which is more stylish treating human conditions, and is similar to the cinema d’auteur in Europe. No doubt that Nair Mair a filmmaker installed in America , famous of her , « Salaam Mumbay » and now with her latest film « Namesake » wakes up America and Europe to recognize the potential of Indian cinema. Indian Cinema has always been loved by Moroccan cinemagoers and bollyphiles and even since its early start with legendary Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (1870 - 1944) affectionately called Dadasaheb Phalke is considered as the 'father of Indian Cinema'. Central in Phalke's career as a filmmaker was his fervent belief in the nationalistic philosophy of swadeshi, which advocated that Indians should take charge of their own economy in the perspective of future Independence.This was confirmed to me by the most respected filmmaker Yash Shopra who was in Marrakech in 2005 with his wife, Pamela Chopra . Going around Marrakeshi souks and suburbs especially the Jamaa el Fna (11) square, Yash shopra said how amazed and astonished he was by the Moroccan people and its traditions that really has great affinity with the ones in India. Both India and Pakistan Should be grateful for the symbolic union that gathers these two countries through VEERZAARA By Yash Shopra.It is an outstanding drama which tries to break the barriers separating two lovers, Veer Patra Sing (Shahrukh kan) and a Pakistani woman , Zarra Hayaat Khan (Preity Zinta). When he projected his film at Berlin film festival, Yash Shopra was scared that the people would not understand the story , However ,at the end of the film, he saw people crying. The presence of Aishwarya Rai in Marrakesh , a former Miss World and Bollywood’s first genuine cross-over icon, , lightened Marrakech with her beauty and let all Marrakeshi young men eyes wild open. These artists are well honored by the Moroccan people and FIFM,the international film festival in Marrakesh. Morrocco now became known in Mumbay and the majority of Bollywood stars would love to come to this country. Not far from Agadir, Las Palmas , a spanish litttle island, is overcrowded with indians and enjoyed the double culture there. Indians have immigrated to every corner of the globe with contingencies in South Africa, the Gulf countries, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, US, Canada apart from the UK. Wherever the Indians go, their films and their food go with them. With curry and chutney now international favourite foods, it was inevitable that their exotic films, their melodies, the romantic strains of their sitar, the striking beauty of their leading ladies and the dark and daring magnetism of their dashing heroes would eventually reach the hearts of the West despite all of Rudyard Kipling's poetic protests, reports Lubna Abdel Aziz, from Cairo Al Ahram weekly . Of course, he did not know then the strength and might of the Seventh Art, which proved to be the best meeting ground for East, West, North and South. Many critics in Morocco would immeditaly judged Indian cinema as an emotional cinema which only seeks imposssible love, and therefore damages the taste with its chosen six songs and pharonic scenes and yet praised and admired by others just like Razak, a Hindu fan and film critic who is illuminated by its new wave , indepentent anti-studio cinema , pioneered by Madhur Bhandarkar .Razak continiously makes local cinephiles more aware about Indian cinema using his power as a wonderful plume .He writes how exquisite , beautiful and magnificanctly arising and yet glorifying world wild Hindi cinema is.He also predicted in his RABAT EXPRESS newspaper that « BLACK » of Sanjay Leela Bhansali with Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee as best actor and actresse ,would win an Oscar in Dubai during IIFA film festival this year 2006.His prophecy became true in the United Arab of Emirates last june during IIFA ceremony in Dubai. By the way, the Arab world is also fascinated by this genre of Cinema .Whenever you go, Bollywood movies prevail in popular theatres, for example ,Cairo,casablanca and Dubai cinemas are full with bollywood fans, and you can hardly find your ticket. Now resoursefully, people in Mumbay listen carefully to European cinephiles who admire latest of Sanjay Leela Bhansali « BLACK » because simply of its new style without using songs and exotic scenes. Ideas like creating an agency that deals only with Bollywood films and Wizcraft artistic communications becomes a wish not only for Razak , Ahmed Sijilmassi but also for Abdelillah Al Jawhari and Allal El Alaoui (12) . Those tink-tanks see that it is time to sit down, and dicuss continuous meeetings where film distributers, producers and fimmakers tackle mechanism and the future of Indian cinema. Since the The first film in Southern India was made in 1916 by R Nataraja Mudaliar- Keechaka Vadham, the hindu wish to impose their style of making cinema . Now thanks to wizcraft agency, India’s first and premier event management and entertainment agency, pioneered by Wiz Andre Timmins , Wiz Viraf Sarkari , Wiz Sabbas Joseph . These men are giving power to IIFA to become more world class ceremony. - 2000 : London,United Kingdom. - 2001 : Sun City,South Africa. - 2002 :Genting Highlands, Malaysia. - 2003 :Johannsbourg,South Africa. - 2004 :Songapore. - 2005 :Amsterdam,The Netherlands. - 2006 :Dubai,UAE. - Morocco has,alas, missed this year 2006 appointement, but rumours say that 2008 IIFA awards will be one hundred per cent Moroccan . This pushes Yorkshire to swiftly call for IIFA festival to be held in its land.So, Lata Mangeshkar, a Guiness record holder, Mukesh, Mahmood Rafi and Kishore, will sing Godlike lyrics to beautify British souls . Yorkshire lads and birds including five millions Asians would enjoy beautiful movies when they would put the kettle on. Yorkshire then hosts IIFA , the international Indian film academy awards , oscar-style and is backed by brillant staff of Yorkshire tourist Board whose chairman is Judith Donovan including members of YTB such as Sir Thomas Ingilby , Colin Brown , Zulfi Karim, Cllr. Carl Les and others .They already mise-en – scene the platform of the seventh edition festival already called – Love at first sight. Surely the seventh edition of the IIFA festival will shake cinema lovers and bollyphiles around the globe especially Yorkshire plays the leading cultural link between the fiveth continent. Stratford -upon - even where William shakespeare is born ; a few kilometres from quintessential Yorkshire towns where the festival will be held , Richmond Old theatre eighteen century and the glittering town Leeds ,these local cultual treasures of Yorkshire will be seen and honored. Famous personality & Celebrities will invade British Islands mainly Amitah Bachan, Karishma Kapoor, Aamir Khan, Kajol, Madhuri Dixit and Shah Ruhk Khan who reports on himself ‘I have created a myth. Sometimes I think of myself in the third person – I’m ‘the’ Shah Rukh Khan now. He’s a brand of his own. It’s not me any more. Now a myth is created. This is what my films have created. That myth can be called King Khan.’ Yorkshire expects millions and millions of tourists from around the world. The event is expected to boost tourism income across the region by nearly 10 million pounds. The inaugural IIFA awards event was held at London's Millennium Dome in 2000. The summer of 2007 is also expected to attract nearly 30,000 people from Europe, India, southeast Asia and the US, and signifies the exalted status the Indian film industry has attained in Britain. FIFM bureau de la fondation, CCM (13) and house distibution in Morocco should consider and give importance and value to Hindi cinema and especially the taste of passionate Moroccan people who just love this cinema. In academic circles here, LA Times (14) reports that Indian films are no longer seen as quaint, gaudy and oriental items, but a resilient cultural powerhouse in the subcontinent that challenges the near-global domination of Hollywood films. Muqtedar Khan (15) writes that India is already well situated to become a major economic and cultural power worldwide. Indian culture, through the popularity of Indian cinema, is already giving India the kind of "soft power" that only America enjoys worldwide. Bina paul will never forget Salé and its traditions . With her digital camera , she took pitures of women tatooing their hands with El Hana, a spiritual herb also used in India for the same purpose.She carefully took notes of those women making their spiritual journeys to Marabouts (16) . This reminds Bina of her people doing the same pilgrimage not of course to Marabouts, but to cinema theatres where they expect good endings eternel heroes , widows and homeless children. Coming out from El Madrassa al Bouanania (17), bina paul amazed by its marvellous Islamic frisks , remembered her colleague filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan from Kerala saying that India has always been an immence bazar of images . By ALLAL EL ALAOUI Zhor idrissi : secretariat. • International women cinema in salé. • Centre national de la cinematographie. • www.CCM.ma. • Noureddine sail ( CCM ). • Kamal Mghazli ( CCM ). • Ahmed Araib ( CCM ). • Razak ,( rabat express). • Al ahram weekly . • Lubna aziz from al ahram weekly. • Le monde diplomatique. • The times, UK. • LA TIMES. • 1- the masala films : The 1970s saw the advent of the multi-generic entertainment extravaganza replete with dramatic dialogue and spectacular song and dance sequences. 2- SALÉ : A millinuim town in Morocco . 3- Nour Eddine Sail is a Moroccan thinker and cinema critic and head of the main cinema institution of cinema called CCM. 4- Ibrahim Essaih is a Moroccan Indian film dubber . He was the pioneer of dubbing Hindi films after the independence. 5- FIFM bureau de la fondation is an institution in Morocco that organizes International film festival. 6- Mukesh Bhatt is film producer in India. 7- Derb Rallef is a popular market in casablanca where one can find any goods. 8- Swika is a popular market in Rabat . 9- Dawliz complexe is a Place of entertainement, restaurants and luxuary cinemas in Salé . 10- EL Wad : a dangerous Ghetto in the north of Salé . 11- Jamaa el Fna square : one of the most famous entertainemnt souk in Marrakesh ( see UNESCO) . 12- Razak, Ahmed Sijilmassi, Al Jawhari and Allal El Alaoui ; Cinéphiles and intellectuals ,on line free-writers and especially Indian movie fans and critics . 13- CCM is a national institution of cinema that is strictly administratif dealing with distribution , Film visas , festivals and co-ordinations 14- LA Times : Los Angels Journal in America . 15- Dr.Muqtedar Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. 16- Marabout is a spiritual leader or saint in Morocco. 17- El Madrassa al Bouanania is an old medieval univeristy in Salé famous of its superb arabisque frisks and mosaique.

screenwriting by Allal El Alaoui: 5

Aristotle mentioned structure but he also mentioned Catharsis . Cartharsis is an emotional vomit by character .Some screenwriters use this technique right in the first scenes ,however Cartharis is very often used at end because it is related to emotions that come out from character after going through obstacles. So , here another video in the Moroccan dialect explaining that element in screenwriting.

lessons on screenwriting by Allal El Alaoui : 4

Structure is just two or three small surprises followed every now and then by a bigger surprise. American screenwriting teacher Syd Field first articulates the three-act model: setup, confrontation, and resolution with a turning point towards the end of the first act (the provoking event) or the inciting incident that is considered to be a major element that drives the main character towards the crisis.We continue to give a new lesson on structure in Moroccan dialect waiting for that moment to publish videos in English .

Courses on screenwriting by Allal EL Alaoui : 4

The moment of AHA voiced by the audience That means revelarion . reveleation is an important element in the script . Revelaation is also an iportant element of structure and as i have mentioned before that screenwrting is structure .So here is an aonther lesson on screenwrting based on revelation in structure , I also mention the mathematic technique of using W X A = C that means weakness point x action = change . Z

Courses on screenwriting by Allal El Alaoui : 3

Screenwriting is the most difficult job in the world.it is a craft based on writing everyday and of course you have to have a descipline that means you have to choose a time to write wether in the morning , evening or night . you have to write and get yourself to write until you reach the the time of rewriting . so let's carry on to undestand this 15 minutes video from my youtube channel chapter 3 in Moroccan dialect.

Nostalgia of cinephilia in Morocco

Francois Truffaux 's cinephilia begins with watching VHS video cassettes, that means had Truffaux been alive in our days , he would go to buy CDs And DVDs from Shops just like Foad 's one .Cinemagoers in Morocco ask for Cinema D'autheur ,because its good quality imposes itself to educate the taste . Although Essamarine Undergoes severe control of CCM ,known as El Kissaria in Rabat and Derb Ghellaf in Casablanca , shops of classical cinema resist the pressure that the authorities practises on them .Now, It is obvious that the power of buying is active around El Kissariyaa and no doubt that in Morocco like other countries , the culture of image is amasingly having a boom thanks to the policy of cinema productions .As a result, cinephilia grows considerably very well.Strangely and legally in Morocco, Alchohol is allowed in shops and super-markets ,but cinema of great quality is forbidden.This dilemma metamorphoses the semi-western culture that a muslim country like Morocco is having . For some, it is a paradize lost and for others it is a ferocious fight between the sacred and the profane.This echoes a victory of the culture of image and its education on taste cinematographically.From this context, i went to downtown El Essamarine Al kissaria to interview Foad Beniouri , one of the distinguished young cinemagoers in Rabat, that thanks to him cinephilia comes back and becomes popular . Allal-cinemagoer : How come do you obtain all these schools of cinema burnt in DVD just in a little tiny shop here in Rabat ? Foad : It is genetic .I mean it comes from my Father .Here in Rabat ,when i was a child ,my father used to take me to watch western movies .I mean to say movies with Hollywoodian stars like Kirk Douglas and Burnt Lancaster .Well ,I watched all these movies at Cinema Star in the north of Rabat near the sea, the place called l'Ocean . Allal-cinemagoer : Was it sort of a hobby ? Foad : Yes, it was .the days of my childhood was beautiful and exciting, full of actions .So, I had some options in front of me either to fish or go to movies with my father and sometimes i stayed at home reading literature .As i grew up a little bit , i began to think of myself .How can i face my life ? The option to go to the north of Morocco and bring smart clothers and resell them was an idea that overtook my thinking ,and indeed i started to bring some special things from Tangier ,Tetwan and Nador .Usually Moroccans want handsome goods that come from Spain or from Asiatic countries like Thaiwan and China. Allal-cinemagoer : Time has changed with the coming of the digital tools and machines ? Foad : Excactly.You mean in 2000.Eveybody worries about the future of mankind especially the banks ,because number 0 would change that time to whatever .But, what amazes me so much is that the big interest of film-makers who had great faith and fell quickly in love with digital cinema ..First, there came DVX cinema.People enjoyed this genre of cinema vey much and then VCD came out and clients were more interested of this kind of revolution .I remembered that we sold DVX about 150DH per one.Later on,a friend of mine contacted me and proposed to work with him .This latter knew that i was a big fan of classical cinema and we started to work on DVDs which were valuable that time . Allal-cinemagoer :May be you had that idea to burn western movies , because you knew that Moroccan cinemagoers would ask for them ? Foad : Moroccan cinephiles have excellent taste .It is true that they want cow-boy movies , but too many asked me about classical cinema.People wanted to see again great films of great directors at home and you know what it means to watch a movie in DVD. So, i started to burn all movies of Akira Kurasawa, Russian cinema and of course Cinema d'autheur .People usually watch VHS movies but DVD quickly is appreciated by too many cinema lovers .DVD has an excellent quality in resolution as far as image is concerend but VHS has low and poor quality .Besides , cinemagoers love to have a DVD library at home . Allal-cinemagoer : Too many Moroccan film-directors and cinephiles come to your shop to buy DVD movies just like Daoud Aoulad-Syad, Abderrahman Tazi,Mohamed Eddahane and Barkach and also people from The federal association too .What strikes me most is that too many Moroccan film -directors do not want to have their films in DVS.It is strange,is not it ? .CCM could have burnt Moroccan classical cinema to promote cinephilia ever since 1944 .What do you think of this self-control that CCM is doing ? Foad : Nabil Ayouch has accepted to burn his movies into DVD.If you look around , you will find his movie, Ali Zawa still in the market.There is also Leila Marrakechi 's film -Marock - Allal-cinemagoer: But, these film-directors are born in France .Mentality is different. Foad : So what .they are Moroccan .They are like those American film-directors .I mean to say ; Quentin Tarantino and Michael Moore .Those people say that their films can be hacked in the net ,because as i said to you before, those people respected Cinephilia.I think it is about Intelligence.This policy of encouraging piracy seduces more cinemagoers to watch their films .Suppose that a Moroccan film maker has made a movie that costs a lot of money , but nobody goes to see it.it is a disaster,is not it ? . On the contrary, if this film-maker encourages people to hack his movie, his movie will be seen everywhere, because i think it i is a nice technique to ad your goods through this method, knowing also that publicity plays a major role not only to finance movies , but also it pushes people to go to cinemas or come to buy movies from our shops.T think the club of Quentin , Nabil and Michael is overcrowded considerably and you may go and visit their sites on the net and you will be surprised how many people are still asking about their movies .However,i am with the opening and reopening of the Moroccan -cinema theatres.Cinemas are the ideal place to dream as we did when we were children. Allal-cinemagoer: Producing cinema with new visions,does it mean to you something ? the independence cinema and literature .Do these words mean to you someting ? Foad : Remaking films is another step to promote cinema in the right way.I give some examples of our national directors .Souhail Ben Barka has remade a spanish novel may be taken from Cervantens 'La noce de Sang'and also an internatioanl one calledOb Cried oh beloved country ' which becomes ' Amock'. Abdelelhay El Iraki has remade Edmond Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac'which becomes 'Yakouta ', starring Mohamed Miftah and Fatima Khier .I have also heard that you have rewritten Callie Khoury's movie ' Thelma and Louis'which is now called " Zoubida and Zoulikha' and that Iman Mesbahi is interested to direct it . Morocco has changed deeply and this is confirmed in writing of great anthropologists like Abdellah Hamoudi and Triki.As you know that there is a peaceful fighting between Hollywood and Bollywood .But still one remakes the other which is great .That is to say,Hollywood remakes Bollywood and Vice-versa. Now, 2M Tv has diffused ' Wjjae El Tourab by Shafik Shimi,a wonderful rewriting of Emil Zola's novel .I think it is a success.Eveybody talks about it in the street .I hope our film-directors shift 180 degrees to remake movies .I am still surprised why they don't produce Mohammed Choukri's novel ' Le Pain Nu '.I think it will be a beautiful movie and please tell me later what will happen to the box office locally. This shifts us to talk about the independence cinema of Jim Jurmush and John Cassavettes .These film-makers in America have guts and courage to tackle touchy subjects.People here in Morocco want to see mentalities of money holders to change.So ,in stead of investing on building houses and appartments,business men should produce movies in quantity and quality. I also know that Ridly Scott , the british film-maker makes a big controvercy in Morocco by appealing against my colleagues of his later movie -American Gangaster - . What happens is that my colleagues were hasty to sell his movie. The USA embassy in Rabat makes an appeal for that and the resellor is now in prison.Ridly Scott,as he knows, has always been welcomed to shoot his movies in Morocco.Thanks to the people of Morocco, his movie " The Gladiator ' has been a great success.Do we merit to be punished this way,Scotty ? I think next time Ridly Scoot(Scoot means shut up in Moroccan dialog) might be stoned by kids as it happenend to Kamal Kamal in the south of Morocco (laughingly). what happens to Morocco in creating film festivals is something good ,because it is an opportunity for producers, film-makers and cinephiles to meet and talk .Moroccan producers should trust film-makers and let them express themselves .This is an important option to promote cinema here. May be it is time to make festivals in the south too. The south of Morocco has seduced international film makers namely the directors of photography .They know that the sky in the South is as pure as the soul of man.Movies like ' le thé au Sahara ' ' The Momies' and Marrakech' are a great success. by Allal El Alaoui

courses on screenwriting by Allal El Alaoui 2

So,as i told you before that my book will be published very soon on screenwriting and its techniques . Screenwriting is structure .That means if you know how to build up structure , i think you will have a well written script . Of course , there are many teachers who have written about structure such as Syd Filed, John Truby , Robert Mckee and Black synder and more .I know that Aristotle was the first guru on structure because he emphysises on structure than protagonist .Here is my first course in Moroccan dialect published in my youtube channel six years ago .

Courses on screenwriting by Allal El Alaoui

Before publishing my book on screenwriting , I will write short synopsis on stories because apparently screenwriting is based on stories, and I understand why Robert McKee has chosen to entitle his book on screenwriting ; and names it story . Arab poetry has an example of a beautiful tale or story of two lovers , Qais and Laila: the poet Qais Al-Laithi and Laila Al-Khuzaieh get married unplanned but the father of Leila divorces her and marries her to someone else, so Qais empties his heart into a collection of poetry. There are many examples in Western literature , like for example Romeo and Juliet, a dramatic masterpiece of William Shakespeare: two noble families hate each and as a result, they separate the two lovers who marry secretly, but their love does not last .