SPECIAL PAGE FOR THE CARTHAGE FILM FESTIVAL - #JCC2017
The Official Promotional Video Of The Festival
Tunisia celebrates...
The Carthage Film Festival in its 28th edition has been started between November 4th and 11th, 2017 in a very festive atmosphere which added to the streets of the Tunis capital a great mobility among people, where you can find smiles on their faces and different topics may be related to what is happening today, as this question that I have geard from them or exactly from people don't know that we are celebrating the JCC, additionally a commercial ecstasy in all shops around the city.
Security:
All the pillars of the capital of Tunis and during all the days of the festival were more secured to avoid any similar operations or movements especially after the Tunisian revolution, it became clear that the situation is safer than before.
Wherever I went and moved, there was strict security and a clear search of citizens when entering the center of the capital, especially the cinema theater halls that exposed the films of this years's edition.
Wherever I went and moved, there was strict security and a clear search of citizens when entering the center of the capital, especially the cinema theater halls that exposed the films of this years's edition.
Let's get back a little about....
The Carthage Film Festival (Journées cinématographiques de Carthage, or JCC) is a film festival that takes place annually in Tunis, and has been designed as a film festival engaged in the cause of African and Arab countries and enhancing the South cinema in general.
Conceived by filmmaker Tahar Cheriaa and officially launched in 1966 by the Tunisian Minister of Culture, Chedli Klibi, this event, the first of its kind in the Arab world, is primarily intended to highlight the sub-Saharan African and Arab cinema, creating bridges of dialogue between North and South and offering a meeting between filmmakers and moviegoers of all sides. Thus Klibi said:
"We first hope a dialogue. A dialogue, frank, lucid, without ulterior motives. But we are sure that such a dialogue can only lead to a better mutual understanding between Africans and Europeans, among the southern Mediterranean and the Northern Mediterranean."
Conceived by filmmaker Tahar Cheriaa and officially launched in 1966 by the Tunisian Minister of Culture, Chedli Klibi, this event, the first of its kind in the Arab world, is primarily intended to highlight the sub-Saharan African and Arab cinema, creating bridges of dialogue between North and South and offering a meeting between filmmakers and moviegoers of all sides. Thus Klibi said:
"We first hope a dialogue. A dialogue, frank, lucid, without ulterior motives. But we are sure that such a dialogue can only lead to a better mutual understanding between Africans and Europeans, among the southern Mediterranean and the Northern Mediterranean."
VIDEO RECAP ON CARTHAGE FILM DAYS BY MABA
Personnally I got the opportunity to attend the coverage of this new edition of Carthage Film Festival for the second time successively in 2016 and 2017 as blogger and freelance journalist and by this way I want to thank the management of the festival for this great chance to write about the Tunisian cinema and to enrich my knowledge in this field.
It was surely a little bit different for me as freelance and other pros to work freely in this season, at the opening day I had no access despite obtaining my official badge that it allows journalists for the entrance, but there was no welcome the agents of security and when asking for the reason for this prohibition towards some of us, freelancers or categorized journalists, where our media (the independents) intention was really pure in keeping up with this event by providing a nice picture to abroad... Although we were prevented from entering, we tried in special ways to get to the heart of the event.
Designation of Najib Ayyad as head of the 28 th and 29 th Carthage Film Festival
Nejib Ayed has been officially designed as head of the 28 th and 29 th Carthage Film Festival in a statement issued by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
Born on December 13, 1953 in Ksar Hellal, Néjib Ayed has a master's degree in French Literature. He was during the 1970s, secretary general and president of the Tunisian Federation of Cinema Clubs (FTCC).
In the 1980s, he was director of SATPEC (Tunisian Anonyme Company of Production and Cinematographic Expansion), in charge of Productions, then Promotion International. In particular, he has contributed as Executive Producer or Executive Producer to the production of several Tunisian films.
Passed by journalism, he was for 2 years, film critic for the newspaper "Le Temps" but also responsible for the Culture section for the magazine "Réalités".
Since 1999, he is independent producer through his production company "Rives productions".
Among the films he has produced are: "An Odyssey" by Brahim Babaï, "War reporter" (Il Hay Irrawah) by Mohamed Amine Boukhris, "The Kingdom of the Ants" by Chawki El Mejri, many others feature films and short films, as well as the success of the last Ramadan on El Hiwar Ettounsi, the "Flashback" series with Lotfi Abdelli.
Néjib Ayed succeeds Brahim Letaief at the head of the JCC.
The latter was dismissed last November 14 after many tensions. Speaking on Radio Mosaïque FM, Brahim Letaief said he resigned "I resigned, I was not fired," he said. "I already said before the course of the JCC that I will not continue after this edition".
Brahim Letaief's grievances were then directed against the Minister of Cultural Affairs Mohamed Zine El Abidine: "When did my problem with Mohamed (Zine El Abidine) begin?" When the day before (of the JCC), he came to ask me that he wanted to make a speech at the opening ceremony, and I told him, "Minister, no, you have no reason to go on stage," saying he asked him to make it clear that he recognizes independence of the JCC or that it would think about it.
Born on December 13, 1953 in Ksar Hellal, Néjib Ayed has a master's degree in French Literature. He was during the 1970s, secretary general and president of the Tunisian Federation of Cinema Clubs (FTCC).
In the 1980s, he was director of SATPEC (Tunisian Anonyme Company of Production and Cinematographic Expansion), in charge of Productions, then Promotion International. In particular, he has contributed as Executive Producer or Executive Producer to the production of several Tunisian films.
Passed by journalism, he was for 2 years, film critic for the newspaper "Le Temps" but also responsible for the Culture section for the magazine "Réalités".
Since 1999, he is independent producer through his production company "Rives productions".
Among the films he has produced are: "An Odyssey" by Brahim Babaï, "War reporter" (Il Hay Irrawah) by Mohamed Amine Boukhris, "The Kingdom of the Ants" by Chawki El Mejri, many others feature films and short films, as well as the success of the last Ramadan on El Hiwar Ettounsi, the "Flashback" series with Lotfi Abdelli.
Néjib Ayed succeeds Brahim Letaief at the head of the JCC.
The latter was dismissed last November 14 after many tensions. Speaking on Radio Mosaïque FM, Brahim Letaief said he resigned "I resigned, I was not fired," he said. "I already said before the course of the JCC that I will not continue after this edition".
Brahim Letaief's grievances were then directed against the Minister of Cultural Affairs Mohamed Zine El Abidine: "When did my problem with Mohamed (Zine El Abidine) begin?" When the day before (of the JCC), he came to ask me that he wanted to make a speech at the opening ceremony, and I told him, "Minister, no, you have no reason to go on stage," saying he asked him to make it clear that he recognizes independence of the JCC or that it would think about it.