‘The Bikeriders’ Director Jeff Nichols to Mentor Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops Which Unveils Selected Projects
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent U.S. director Jeff Nichols – whose “The Bikeriders” recently made a splash at Cannes and Telluride – is set to be the official patron of the upcoming Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops that will see him mentoring selected projects in various stages from the Middle East and North Africa.
Launched in 2018, the Atlas Workshops are an industry initiative to foster and support the emergence of a new generation of Moroccan, Arab, and African filmmakers that provides an environment for exchanges between global professionals and regional talent.
The Marrakech fest’s industry platform this year comprise 17 projects in development and 10 films in production or post-production, hailing from 13 countries.
These works have been selected from more than 300 applications received by the workshop from across the African continent and the Arab world.
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