Moroccan Film Producers Protest CCM Funding, Appeal to King Mohammed VI

These producers, gathered last Friday in Laâyoune, express the "segregation and injustice" of which they are victims, following the refusal to support documentary film projects submitted to the CCM under the advance on receipts. They blame the commission for only supporting three files out of 35, with no director from the Sahara benefiting from the Film Support Fund dedicated to the Hassani heritage, in defiance of the royal will at the origin of the creation of the fund.

These producers do not accept that this kitty does not fully benefit the projects that have been submitted to the commission, namely that many members of the commission chaired by Dr. Ghita El Khayat have been seduced by several of their scripts.

They also demand the appointment of a special commission of the Sahara Film Fund within which will sit specialists in Hassani cultural and cinematographic affairs, specifying that they want the production companies of the Sahara and their directors, good connoisseurs of the region and the subjects of the productions, to be favored, in a context marked by the question of the territorial integrity of Morocco which does not find favor in the eyes of Europeans, Algeria and the Polisario.