The Marrakech International Film Festival is carrying on this tradition with its Atlas Workshops industry and talent development programme fostering Moroccan, Arab, African and diaspora filmmakers and their feature film projects. See the full list of 2021 Atlas Workshops projects hereThe fourth edition has been running its mentoring activities online throughout November. This year we took just 24 projects out of the 250 submissions we received,” says Rémi Bonhomme, Marrakech’s artistic director and Atlas Workshops director. “One of our aims from the beginning has been to challenge international film industry preconceptions around cinema coming out of Africa and the Arab world. Today, he oversees the Atlas Workshops with Marrakech general coordinator Ali Hajji and Atlas Workshops head Thibaut Bracq.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 18, 2021 17:36 UTC