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‘The Bikeriders’ Director Jeff Nichols to Mentor Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops Which Unveils Selected Projects
'The Bikeriders' director Jeff Nichols will mentor the Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas workshops that have unveiled their rish roster of projects.
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. Standout projects on display at the workshops include “El Sett” by prominent Egyptian director Marwan Hamed (“‘The Yacoubian Building”).
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