| Jérôme Cohen-Olivar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Citizenship | Moroccan |
| Occupation |
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| Known for | Kandisha |
| Notable work | Susan Susan |
| Awards | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 'Midnight Orchestra' |
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.
Life
Cohen-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.
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. It won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Montreal World Film Festival in 2015.
Works
- 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
- 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
- Jerome Cohen-Olivar Discusses ‘Little Horror Movie’, Horror News Network, 5 November 2018.
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