Film Director Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our team supports directors working in Morocco with the crew, infrastructure and local knowledge a shoot demands. We brief directing teams on the realities of the country: the Ouarzazate crew base skilled in large-scale and desert production, the standing sets of Atlas, CLA and Kanzaman Studios, and the compact range of terrain that lets a director move from desert to medina to ocean within a tight schedule.

Here is what we have to work with. On the ground, we assemble the heads of department, assistant directors and crews around a director's vision, and set up with the CCM-licensed production-services firm on authorisations, scheduling and access. Directors we support find Moroccan crews multilingual. Arabic, French and increasingly English — and deeply used at setting up Berber extras, horses and camels for ambitious sequences. Whether the project is a feature, a series or a commercial, we match the surrounding team to the director's working style.

Here is the short of it. Morocco has a distinguished directing culture of its own. Nabil Ayouch ('Casablanca Beats', 'Much Loved', 'Horses of God', 'Ali Zaoua') and Maryam Touzani ('The Blue Caftan', 'Adam') have brought Moroccan stories to Cannes competition and the Oscar shortlist, and directors including Faouzi Bensaidi, Laila Marrakchi ('Marock'), Hicham Lasri and Leila Kilani have built a recognisable national cinema.

Here is the layout. On the ground, That domestic depth sits alongside six decades of hosting global directors — from David Lean to Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese, whose 'Kundun' used the country to double for Tibet. The ISMAC in Rabat trains directors and the National Film Festival in Tangier showcases their work. All directing work runs within the CCM framework. This issues filming authorisations and runs the industry. The directing teams we support set up through CCM-licensed partners.