About the Author
Native of Algeria (Médéa, 1978), influenced by his cinephile mother, he begins after his studies a training as a director on the internet at Cinecours.com. In September 2010, he participates in the screenwriting competition organized by Thala Films Production as part of the project Alger Demain, les films. He wrote Un jour à Alger which will be selected at the Festival Cinemed in Montpellier (2011).he then joined Meditalents to develop his feature film project Un meurtre à la Une, as well as his short film Cet homme, qui est-il? After Meditalents, he directed and produced the documentary Al Arbun for the CNRPAH. Then he joined the Quebec collective "El Djazair mon amour" and produced a series of short films in co-production with Kinomada which allowed him to direct his second short film Cet homme, qui est-il? developed at Meditalents, as part of the Kinomada Quebec 2014 short film creation laboratory. He teaches audiovisual techniques since 2015 at the Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH).
Developed Projects
Said is a journalist and favorite columnist for an Algerian newspaper, who miraculously escaped a terrorist attack. Taking refuge in a small studio where initially his stay was not supposed to exceed 5 days, the time for his director and best friend, Farid, to arrange a visa for him and his family for France. But given his problems with the law (censorship) he sees his stay lengthening. Said only communicates with the outside world thanks to two means, his fax telephone with which he sends his columns to his newspaper, and a delivery man, Kamel, whom he does not meet. One day for the first time in more than 40 days, he receives a phone call; the calls are repeated... We found him... Said decides not to hide anymore and goes out....
From Script to Screen
