A film course organised by the Italian Lazio region with Italian companies Cinecitta Holding and Istituto Luce and Moroccan production house Dagham Film will kick off at the end of April in the Moroccan southern city of Ouarzazate. The course, which has reached its second edition this year, will be held by ten Italian teachers for 100 Morrocan students under 25 years of age. Luciano Sovena, the managing director of Istituto Luce, said the aim of the initiative is "to help Morocco's cinema industry give students the know how enabling them to work on international sets.""We have decided to set up this school in Morocco [the Euromediterranean centre of film and audiuvisual education] because the country hosts great productions" without the means to make its own films, Sovena told Adnkronos International (AKI). Ridley Scott's Crusades was one of the international productions to be shot in Morocco.
The studios in Ouarzazate where the course will be held belong to Italy's De Laurentis production company.
The Moroccan cabinet isn't involved in the project, though Sovena said organisers are hoping to get funding in the future.
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