The Producer's network is a workshop that aims to support and handle the Arab and African filmmakers and producers having projects of fiction or documentary feature film in development stage.
Cinema delight is made of opportunities, meetings, and crushes, that is is why this workshop was created. It is an open space for filmmakers to talk about their projects through words, thoughts, sights to professionals coming seeking for a dream.

two professional days October the 31th and November the 1st 2016 during the festival (from 28 October to 5 November 2016) are awaiting for you, a starting point to develop new exciting knowledge that very likely preludes to international collaborations
Welcome to you all


 

Over the years, the Carthage Film Festival has become a key cinematographic event, the place to be for Arab and African filmmakers.
This 27th edition of the JCC will be remarkable, for we are celebrating 50 years of its existence.
True to its innovative spirit, the Producers Network will host, one more time, project holders who are coming to pitch their ideas, hoping to turn them into films. With this in mind, we strive to create a space for meetings, exchanges and debates, to foster future collaborations between professionals, optimizing networking activities.
We offer the opportunity for feature Feature Films projects, documentary and drama, in the development stage to benefit from the expertise and support of producers, distributors and international funds, in a friendly environment.
October 31st and November 1st will be dedicated to the Producer’s Network, and we are confident that these two days will be the start of a new cinematographic adventure for all participants.
Welcome to all and enjoy your festival!


 

Guests

Alessandra Speciale - Labiennale (Italy)

Since 1991 she is artistic director of the African, Asian and Latin America Film Festival of Milan, Italy. With the Association COE she has distributed in the Italian alternative theatrical circuits more than 200 films from three continents.
She has worked as programmer for many international film festivals such as Locarno, San Sebastian and Venice Film Festival. Since 2013, she is correspondent for Africa and Arab Countries for Venice Film Festival and she heads "Final Cut" project in Venice, a workshop supporting African and Arab films in post production stages. She is also a creative documentary filmmaker; her films have been broadcast by television channels such as Tele+, Rai and Arte.
Recently she has been elected President of Milano Film Network, an association that unites seven festivals in Milan, helping to promotes and distribute films and organizes workshops in Italy.

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Alessandra Speciale

 

Alex Dunnett - Corniche Group (England)

Alex Dunnett is Producer at Corniche Pictures in London and has been with the company since 2009. Corniche specializes in developing and producing independent projects across Film, TV and Theatre.
Corniche have had a selection of films at Sundance Film Festival over the last 7 years and in 2014 presented two feature documentaries celebrating their world premieres, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard direct "20,000 Days on Earth" and "We are the Giant". In previous years, Corniche have been involved in the making of Atiq Rahimi’s "The Patience Stone", Elia Suleiman’s "The Time That Remains" and Zeina Durra’s "The Imperialists are Still Alive".
Presently Corniche Pictures is producing the adaptation of Ben Stewart’s book "Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg" in partnership with David Puttnam, along with a full slate of other projects for Film TV and Theatre.

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Alex Dunnett

 

Chadi Zineddine - Doha Film Institute (Qatar)

Chadi Zeneddine is a filmmaker, born and raised in Gabon. Chadi’s first narrative feature, “Falling Fom Eearth”, has been selected in over forty film festivals, including Carthage Film Festival and the New Directors/New Films in New York.
He is currently the Senior Film Programmer at the Doha Film Institute and leading the Film Programming department, putting together programs for the Ajyal Youth Film Festival, Qumra creative and Industry Program and the Year-Round screenings initiatives including dedicated thematic series

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Chadi Zineddine

 

Christine Kopf - The Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany)

The Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung for International Cooperation offers young talented filmmakers from Germany and the Arab world several tailor made workshops and first experiences with international co-productions.
Each year, the Robert Bosch Stiftung issues three Film Prizes, each worth up to 60.000 euros. The prizes are awarded by an international Jury to teams of German-Arab filmmakers to realize a joint film project.

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Christine Kopf

 

Guillaume de Seille - Arizona Productions (France)

Arizona Productions. Paris based, is led by Guillaume de Seille to mainly produce art-house feature films directed by non-French emerging talents. Bénédicte Thomas is handling domestic theatrical French distribution for most of the coproduced titles.
Recent titles:
"I, Olga Hepnarova" by Tomas Weinreb & Petr Kazda (Czech Rep) Berlin Panorama opening, Guadalajara, Sofia, Vilnius, Hong Kong
"L’ultima spiaggia" by Thanos Anastopoulos (Italy) Cannes Official Selection
"Zoology" by Ivan I. Tverdovsky (Russia) Sotchi, Karlovy Vary, Toronto, San Sebastian
"Ali the goat & Ibrahim" by Sherif El Bendary (Egypt)

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Guillaume de Seille

 

Ingrid Lill Høgtun - Barentsfilm as (Norway)

Barentsfilm´s Managing Director, Ingrid Lill Høgtun, is the co-producer for "Essential Killing" by Jerzy Skolimowski, winner of the Jury´s Special Award and Best Actor in Venice 2010, she is currently co-producing the Ukrainian feature "Luxembourg" by award winning Myroslav Slaboshppytskiy, as well as the Egyptian feature "Cactus Flower" by Hala Elkoussy.

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Ingrid Lill Høgtun

 

Michael Henrichs - Die Gesellschaft DGS (Germany)

Michael Henrichs is Managing Director and Producer at Die Gesellschaft DGS. His credits include Associate Producer on the box-office record setting GLM/ BBCW production EARTH, Associate Producer on Gurvinder "Singh’s the Fourth Direction", which screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2015.

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Michael Henrichs

 

Michel Alexandre - Scénariste Dialoguiste (France)

Film and television Writer-dialogist, Michel Alexandre has worked for some of the most famous directors. Twice nominated in the Cesar for Best Script for "L.627" and "Le cousin", he works mainly on thriller fims. For cinema, he has written for Bertrand Tavernier, Alain Corneau and André Téchiné. He received the "Grand Prix Georges LAUTNER" lifetime achievement for his work. He is also the author of two books: "Letters to a young cop" and "The language of the police" illustrated by Siné.
He is the founder and the artistic director of the "Police Paris New York Film Festival", a festival which takes place in Manhattan, New York. He is also the president of the Jury of the Festival International du Film Policer of Liege in Belgium.

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Michel Alexandre

 

Mohamed Hefzy - FILM CLINIC (Egypt)

Mohamed Hefzy, founder of Film Clinic, is an Egyptian screenwriter and producer who has produced and co-produced over 20 feature films in Egypt, the US, the UK, and the Arab world.
Hefzy is a member of the Egyptian Chamber of Cinema since September 2013 becoming a representative of independent filmmakers within the Chamber. In appreciation of his efforts in supporting and developing independent cinema in Egypt, he was honored at the 2nd round of the Independent Arts Season in February 2014.
Hefzy’s latest production "Clash" - a co-production between Egypt, France and Germany - was the opening film of Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2016.

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Mohamed Hefzy

 

Patrice Nezan - Les Contes Modernes (France)

Les Contes Modernes, aims at taking part in intellectual debates within our contemporary societies by any means necessary (fiction, animation, creative documentary and transmedia). Les Contes Modernes supports projects which develop a humanist, empathic and creative approach on the world of today and of tomorrow.

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Patrice Nezan

 

Souad Houssein - Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (France)

A Djibouti-born, Souad Hussein holds a high position at "the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (O.I.F)".
Since 1999 the specialist in cinema program manages, coordinates and supervises the actions dedicated to the the Francophone Southern Cinema which cover (38 countries) including Africa, the Maghreb, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Her functions relate to production, promotion, capacity building, research partnerships.
Holder of a Masters degree in global communication and a Diploma in International Relations Madam Houssein held several functions in her native country, including the coordination of a functional literacy program in French within the Union of Djiboutian women (UNICEF) and employee of the National Treasury.

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Souad Houssein

 

Yacine Laloui - Laith Media (Algérie)

Yacine Laloui Leads one of the most important production companies in Algeria : Laith media, has worked on more than a dozen feature films as producer or executive producer.
Their latest productions: "Zabana", "Masquerades" or "l’Orannais". Laith Media is now opening to international co-production.

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Yacine Laloui

 

PROJECTS

Behind Elimane’s Shadow - Documentary (Senegal)

Synopsis
Two friends, a Senegalese and a French, decide to film the return to Senegal of the former. Upon their arrival in Dimar, they are disappointed by the impermeability of the villagers.
SYLVAIN BALDUS
Born in France in 1977. Sylvain Baldus graduated in Cinema studies at the University of Aix-en-Provence / Marseille and Paris 3. He directed several short documentaries. He’s also a graduate in electro-acoustic at the Nimes Music Conservatory. He scored music for several short films.

HAMEDINE KANE
Visual Artist and director, born in Mauritania in 1983. Hamedine Kane is a graduate from the Belgium Institute ‘JP Lallemand of Brussels’ and the University of Paris Nanterre.. His work has been exhibited in Brussels in an art exhibition called ‘Jungle’ as well as ‘Welcome in the Jungle’ exhibit in Paris, between January and March 2016.

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SYLVAIN BALDUS
HAMEDINE KANE

 

Alexandrila - Fiction (Egypt)

Synopsis
After many years, an old strict religious woman meets her first lover, who owns a bar. One day, she finds there her homosexual son, who was expelled from his home, and all of them got locked inside the bar due to the passage of Islamists demonstration.
Jozeph Ezzat
Egyptian student at Cinedelta film school, he directed a short film entitled "The sinking of the Sun" which has screened at several international film festivals (Doha - Cinesud - Nasser bin Hamad - Saqyet el Sawy- Moscars - Backup)

Karim Gamal
Born in Alexandria in 1992, Karim Gamal is interested in Arabic literature and has published several writings such as "Miramar" (novel). He also wrote many screenplays. "Eclipse" has won the Arab Creativity Award presented by the state of Bahrain at the Alexandria Short Film Festival. This film was screened in many festivals in the US, Canada and Cyprus

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Karim Gamal

 

Terra Natale - Fiction (Tunisia)

Synopsis
Karim opts for illegal immigration. But during his adventure, he becomes aware of the nonsense of his project and decides to return in secret to his country in order to avoid the humiliation of repatriation.
Nawfel SAHEB-ETTABA
Nawfel studied visual communication and film making at the University of Quebec. He worked as an assistant in several feature films in Canada, where he also shot seven short films. He has written several screenplays and in 1999 he made a documentary, Stambali (1999). In 2014 he directed a feature film "El Ziara" (Black Moon).

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Nawfel SAHEB-ETTABA

 

Djihad 10:24 - Fiction (Algeria)

Synopsis
In Algeria, Pierre is ready to find his newly converted son. In Belgium, a sister and a brother entrap young people. In Turkey, Ted, a CIA agent, must find an informant. Three countries, three stories and a common destiny with a Jihadi nebula as a background
Chakib Taleb-Bendiab
An algerian screenwriter, composer and director. He is writer on a British dramatic serie ‘Go Dark’ and ‘Protocole 33’, a feature film that is currently in production between Dubaï and the Algerian Sahara."

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Chakib Taleb-Bendiab

 

FARHA - Fiction (Jordan)

Synopsis
Based on a true story, a Palestinian girl, Farha, faces a life changing journey when her father forcefully locks her up and leaves her behind to protect their family’s honor as a new state is declared on her homeland in 1948.
Darin Sallam
Jordanian director/writer Darin Sallam is an MFA holder and has four award-winning short films to her credit including "Still Alive" and "The Dark Outside". Her latest short film "The Parrot", a joint directing project, received the 2015 Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. She is working on her debut feature film project "Farha".

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Darin Sallam

 

Good Morning - Fiction (Lebanon)

Synopsis
Bahij Hojeij studied philosophy and theater in Beirut and cinema in France. He produced and directed several documentaries and two feature films: "Ring of Fire" and "here comes the rain" Since 1990, he is a Professor of cinema at the "Institute of Fine Arts- Lebanese University ".
Réalisateur
Bahij Hojeij studied philosophy and theater in Beirut and cinema in France. He produced and directed several documentaries and two feature films: "Ring of Fire" and "here comes the rain" Since 1990, he is a Professor of cinema at the "Institute of Fine Arts- Lebanese University ".

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Bahij Hojeij

 

The rumour of the water - Fiction (Tunisia)

Synopsis
The return on an exiled who is tormented by his past concerning love and politics. He returns back to the Didon and Aeneas opera of Purcell that he had to abandon 25 years ago.It is also a chronicle of the daily life and the new opera’s place, Sidi Bou Said, after the Tunisian revolution.
Taieb Louhichi
After a PhD in sociology, he choses cinema at The Institute of Cinematographic Training and the École de Vaugirard in Paris. He directs many shorts, “Mon village, un village parmi tant d'autres,” is Golden Tanit at JCC1972, and El Khammès (The Sharecropper), In 1982, L'Ombre de la terre, Best Screen play Prize and the Manivelle d'or at FESPACO, is awarded at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes. In 1989, Layla, ma raison is selected at la Mostra of Venice. In 1991 he won the Audience Prize at the first festival of African cinema in Milan. L'enfant du soleil (2014) is his latest film.

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Taieb Louhichi

 

THE LIFE OF DEAD - Fiction (Algeria)

Synopsis
Son of an Algerian embassy manager, Sofiane has always had an easy life abroad. He aspires to a career as a diplomat and studied political science in Lyon, but because he is victim of an administrative decision, he ends up undocumented. Hoping to quickly fix the situation, he agrees to work for a Muslim funeral parlor. From Ambassador, he is now an undertaker…
Karim Ben Salah
An Algerian father and a Brazilian mother, he comes to Paris at the age of 18 to study Arts, Philosophy and Social Sciences. In 1998 he enrolls in the London Film School, where he directs “Constant Flow”. “Fatima’s Secret” (2003) is his first professional short film, selected and awarded in several festivals. Then he directs Racine(s), a segment of a long film “Paris la Métisse” (2006) and joins the art collective Tribudom with whom he directs many short films of which the last one is titled “Work site(s)”.

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Karim Ben Salah

 

LAFAYETTE - Fiction (Tunisia)

Synopsis
After a casting for an important role, a Métis actress named Hana, is awaiting for a positive response that will enable her to fulfill her dream. The wait proves so long that she can no longer focus on her play. Ibaa, a charming actress and a Phd student in Fine Arts, has just experienced a break up, Running away from solitude, she tries to fill the void through some male courtship... Amine is a director who chose Hana as the subject for a documentary. During the shooting, he meets Ibaa…
Houssem SANSA
Born in Tunis. He graduated from EAD film school in Tunis where he filmed his graduation final student project. During an internship in FEMIS summer session, he shot his second short documentary “Sinking”. He was assistant director on many productions. In 2016, he filmed two other shorts “Awaiting tomorrow” and “Tribute”.

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Houssem SANSA

 

Le spectacle - Fiction (Tunisia)

Synopsis
Hedi is a member of a dance company who deliberately injures his real life and stage partner Aida during a show, triggering a series of events through a long night of wandering in a forest on the way to the neighboring village doctor.
Afef Ben Mahmoud
Afef Ben Mahmoud started her artistic career as a dancer then actress in theatre, television and cinema. She directed four short films and is currently developing her first feature film “The Show”.

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Afef Ben Mahmoud

 

Retina - Fiction (Tunisia)

Synopsis
A Tunisian living in Marseille is caught up by his past when his wife has a brain stroke. He is compelled to move back to Tunis in order to put his autistic son, he abandoned seven years before, in a special care institution. This is the beginning of a journey of initiation where Lotfi will not only be confronted to his regained paternity but also to his son’s autism.
Nejib Belkadhi
Director and script writer. After graduating from business school in trade and marketing, he starts an actor’s career in theatre and cinema then focuses on film direction. In 2002, he is the cofounder of Propaganda Productions with his producer Imed Marzouk. Between 2005 and 2014 he directs a short fiction film titled « Tsawer » and two long documentaries « VHS-Kahloucha », and « 7 ½ ». His feature length fiction « Bastardo » was selected in more than 50 festivals all over the world, winning more than 20 awards.

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Nejib Belkadhi

 

Nothing about my mother - Documentary (Tunisia)

Synopsis
Sawsen is 13 years old girl. Medical reports confirmed that her life as a woman is condemned forever. Today, her only wish is to take revenge on her mother and step-father that will be freed from prison soon. A mother and a step-father that tortured her and prostituted her between the ages of 6 to 8 and to whom the justice system was too lenient.
Latifa Doghri
After studies in French literature, Latifa Robbana Doghri started by writing and publishing books for children. She then studied communication through image and multimedia. Her first documentary “Fight With Her” was in the Official Selection of Doha-Tribeca and the African Cinema Festival in Stockholm. She won the Golden Falcon at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival in 2012. Her second feature film "Made in Gougou" won the prize for best documentary at the African Film Festival of Luxor in 2014.

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Latifa Doghri

 

Solo - Fiction (Tunisia)

Synopsis
Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the mean streets of Tunis, she starts searching for her missing son Moumen, a young football player destroyed by the scandal. During her journey, Amel must face a failling Tunisian society.
Mehdi Hmili
Mehdi Hmili was born in Tunis. He studied cinema in Tunis and Paris. Mehdi Hmili directed his trilogy in black and white around the themes of love and exile: “X-Moment” 2009, “Li-La” (2011), and “The night of Badr” (2012). His first feature film “Thala my love”, developed at the Torino Film Lab and winner of several prizes for script writing is in the competition of the JCC 2016. He lives and works between Paris and Tunis.

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Mehdi Hmili

 

GOLD RUSH - Documentary (Togo Mali)

Synopsis
3rd largest gold producer in Africa, Mali is 176th out of 186 on the Human Development Index. With democracy in 1991, foreign mining companies, the World Bank, the IMF and the government of Mali invaded the gold fields and sowed chaos in the biosphere pushing residents into the hell of gold panning. Kayes and Sikasso, two gold regions programmed cataclysm, depict the current state of two companies facing a mafia organization. "Yellow Earth" went in these regions to meet those who live and struggle simply to get by.
Sitou AYITE
With a degree in African English-speaking literature, Sitou Ayité has an eclectic path. She enters in the world of cinema as a film critic. She then attends several Master Classes in directing and script writing. In 2012, she becomes professional in film production in France. She produced a dozen films and directed two films.

Bouna Chérif FOFANA
Bouna Chérif Fofana has a university degree in management and in Finance. He becomes director at CNCM in 2004 after several Master Classes. He was part of the crew with several great Malian directors and directed two films. In 2013 he gets a master degree in Law and communication innovation of culture, specialty Law, economy and management of the Audio-Visual at à the university of Paris Pantheon Sorbonne.

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Sitou AYITE
Bouna Chérif FOFANA

 

Traces of Malaye - Documentary (Niger)

Synopsis
Who remembers Abdoulaye Mamani? An activist and committed trade unionist, journalist and avid writer, he fought all his life for the freedom of peoples and the independence of his country, Niger. A life of hope, struggles and exile at the heart of contemporary history and the decolonization of Africa. If the politician seems to have now disappeared from the official history of Niger, the man of letters continues to survive beyond the borders, by the writings he left behind. This man was my father. Following his traces, twenty-three years after his death, I rediscover along with its history, and my country.
ABDOULAYE MAMANI Amina
After a University degree in audiovisual direction / production at the Niamey Institut de Formation aux Techniques de l’Information et de la Communication, she directs her graduation project called « Hawan-Idi» which won the prize of school film best documentary at FESPACO 2013. In 2014, she directs a documentary « Silence of the papers » selected at the Festival des Cinémas d’Afriques des Pays APT in France and in many other festivals.

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ABDOULAYE MAMANI Amina

 

Plastic memory - Documentary (Tunisia)

Synopsis
The portrait of a visual artist who created a museum for himself. After a life of labor he collected more than three thousand works of art. 78 years old Aly Aissa lives alone in this building, like a true hermit.
Marwen Trabelsi
Marwen Trabelsi is a tunisian photographer and filmmaker. After studying cinema at the university, he made several experimental films, two fictions and two documentaries. His films were screned in many festivals around the world.

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Marwen Trabelsi

 

My friend gadhgadhi - Documentary (Tunisie)

Synopsis
The director finds out that Kamel Gadhgadhi, the most wanted terrorist in Tunisia in 2013-2014, and suspected perpetrator of several political crimes and assassinations, is indeed his college friend. This surprise brings different thoughts on the issue of terrorism...
Rafik Omrani
A graduate in Arts and Communication, he started with short films, animation and documentaries in 2009. In 2011, he directed his first feature documentary "Fallega 2011" and a second in 2016, "Prélude".

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Rafik Omrani