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Tarak Ben Ammar Thanks George Lucas, Roberto Rossellini While Being Honored at Variety’s Welcome to Cannes
Tarak Ben Ammar was honored for his contributions to cinema at Variety's Welcome to Cannes Party.
Tarak Ben Ammar, the legendary producer and distributor, said his life may have turned out very differently if a Variety reporter named Hank Werba hadn’t written about his efforts to convince filmmakers to make their movies in Tunisia. It was that decades-old article, in which Ben Ammar pitched the North African nation as “peaceful” and “inexpensive” place to make films, that caught the attention of George Lucas, who decided to shoot parts of “Star Wars” in the country. Netflix awards strategist Lisa Taback and Venice Film Festival programmer Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan and director Alberto Barbera attend the Variety Welcome to Cannes Party.
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