Jérôme Cohen-Olivar (born 1964) is a Moroccan-French film director, best known for Kandisha (2008), a fantasy film inspired by the myth of Aicha Kandicha.
Jérôme Cohen-Olivar | |
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| Born | 1964 |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Citizenship | Moroccan |
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| Known for | Kandisha |
| Notable work | Susan Susan |
| Awards | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 'Midnight Orchestra' |
Life
editCohen-Olivar mostly grew up in Morocco, where he made movies on super 8mm film, before moving to Los Angeles. Susan Susan, his first short film, was a satire about secret immigration to the United States, bought by Disney for about $300,000.[1]
The Midnight Orchestra, a comedy based around the story of a man travelling to Morocco to revive his father's orchestra, examined the experiences of Jews leaving Morocco.[2] It won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Montreal World Film Festival in 2015.[3]
Works
edit- Susan Susan, 1987 (short)
- Cool Crime, 1999
- Kandisha, 2008
- The Midnight Orchestra (L'orchestre de minuit), 2015
- The 16th Episode / Little Horror Movie, 2018
References
edit- ^ Jérôme Cohen-Olivar, New York Sephardi Film Festival 2019. Accessed 9 February 2019.
- ^ ”Midnight Orchestra: Coexistence between Jews and Moslem Moroccans and the Memory resilience, African Bulletin, 26 January 2016.
- ^ Ikram Bellarabi, Routes and Roots: The Representations of the Jewish Returnees on the Moroccan Big Screen, BA Thesis, Mohammed V University in Rabat, 2016/17.
External links
edit- Jerome Cohen-Olivar Discusses ‘Little Horror Movie’, Horror News Network, 5 November 2018.
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