HRH Crown Prince Moulay Rachid links cross-cultural approach to Moroccan education

Marrakech, April 27, 2008 -- Widely regarded as the most successful program in Morocco, nurtured by the leadership of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Moulay Rachid, kicked off the third year of the MEDA Films Development (MFD) seminar series, which are being held on April 27th – May 4th in Marrakech.

Crown Prince Moulay Rachid plays a significant role in reaching out to the global visibility and connectivity of Moroccan and regional professionals, emphasizing the need for new concepts in the education to meet demanding swift in the industry.

As a result, ten carefully selected film producer-scriptwriter teams participate in an eight-day programme, pitching and expanding on their projects in front of a panel of potential financers, TV broadcasters and industry acquisitions representatives.

The objective is to enable scriptwriter and producer teams to adopt a new approach to upstream conceiving, thinking and collaborating on feature-length films, aiming to promote synergies in the team, an essential element for the successful development of a film project.

As with the 2006 and 2007 programmes, the 2008 workshops will be conducted in French and English by tutors and international experts.

Financed by the Marrakech International Film Festival Foundation and European Union within the framework of the Euromed Audiovisual programme, MEDA Films Development is an initiative of Ali n’ Productions (Morocco) in partnership with the Moroccan Cinema Centre, Nomadis Images (Tunisia), EAVE (Luxembourg) and the Centre National de la Cinématographie (France).