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Azlarabe Alaoui

Azlarabe Alaoui

Screenwriter and Producer

Morocco

Azlarabe Alaoui is Moroccan script writer, producer, and film director. He has a Ph.D. in visual writing.  He is a professor of film directing in many academic institutions and is the president of the Centre of Film Studies and Research in Cinema in Morocco. He is also the director of two feature films Androman. Blood and Coal (2012) and Kilikis. The City of Owls (2018). He has produced 50 documentaries since 1998 including more than 20 documentaries for Al-Jazeera Documentary channel and a lot of television films and documentaries for the Moroccan television. His films won a myriad of national and international awards. He wrote a variety of critical articles and his book Critical Approach to the Visual Discourse in Morocco was published in 2017. Furthermore, he gives several professional workshops on film directing and documentary making in Morocco and abroad.