Shukran Marrakech! It’s been a dream-like invitation to represent my project at Les Ateliers De L’Atlas. Thank you universe, thank you everyone for this incredible opportunity ✨ TANZANITE, the journey is on. 🙏🏽🎬♥️ ‘Kilometers 60,’ ‘Gunpowder,’ ‘Fish’ Win at Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops – Kantarama
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It has been an honour and a pleasure being part of Realness Residency this summer of 2018 with my project TANZANITE. 6 weeks of intense work, challenging my project and myself for the best, at the paradise location of Nirox right next to the Cradle of Humankind, north of Johannesburg, where I could hear lions roar every night… and then 7 challenging weeks of work from Kigali. Adding story, structure, characters, layers, details, meaning. My first time in a screenwriting residency, my first time working with a team of people that support me and my project, who were able to create this bubble, where I could feel safe but also push to the limits. For the first time ever (!) could I let go of anything logistic and concentrate on the artistic craft itself. The creative. Needless to say that it felt amazing and humbling. I am so grateful for the support and progress made. For the network created, and the many other opportunities that it has already brought and will in the future. And last but not least, many thanks to my friend and co-writer Kivu Ruhorahoza. You are so talented, it is a pleasure to be able to […]
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It’s OFFICIAL and I can finally talk about this amazing opportunity!!! Thank you so so much Kivu Ruhorahoza for going on a wild ride with me. Thank you Elias Ribeiro, Cait Pansegrouw & all the readers for REALNESS – A Screenwriter’s Residency it’s been 3 years that I was dreaming of participating and now it is finally happening. I can’t wait. Urucu Media x Realness – An African Screenwriter’s Residency x Festival de Cannes – Cannes Film Festival OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: REALNESS SELECTION – 3RD EDITION After an extensive evaluation of more than 130 projects from 24 countries, it is our greatest pleasure to introduce you to the Realness Residents of 2018; Kantarama Gahigiri – Rwanda (Project: Tanzanite) Matthys Boshoff – South Africa (Project: Vlees Van My Vlees) Ng’endo Mukii – Kenya (Project: The Goat Sunday) Reem Morsi – Egypt (Project: Bootleg) Mohammed Siam – Egypt (Project: Blood and Honey) PRESS: Realness Screenwriter’s Residency 2018 participants announced at Cannes Film Festival https://www.screendaily.com/news/five-projects-selected-for-2018-african-screenwriting-residency-realness/5129672.article – Kantarama
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March 2018, we came full circle, back to where it all started 5 years ago in March 2013! TAPIS ROUGE Thank you for believing in us. Thank you for the chills. Now, ready for the next adventure. – Kantarama Tapis Rouge @ IMDb
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Tapis Rouge has a National Theatrical release in France starting May 10 !!! Many many thanks to our distributor Wayna Pitch. – Kantarama Tapis Rouge @ IMDb
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Tapis Rouge (and I) on the road in Tunisia !!! El Kef opening a Film Festival near the border with Algeria > special screenings in 3 prisons near Tunis : some of the most powerful interactions I ever experienced > Monastir > Hammamet > Menzel Bourguiba > Tunis opening the Festival du Film Francophone… Besslama Tounis
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Athens International Film Festival. Tapis Rouge opens the Minority Report program. A top quality festival with an edgy programmation, passionate festival goers, the capital of European culture (sorry Paris!), edgy galleries, cheap cocktails, mild evenings, wild nights… Efharisto poli Αθήνα! Thank you Athens for showing me so much love ❤️ – Kantarama Tapis Rouge @ IMDb Upper pix: Andreas Eggler / Lower pix: Maria Maroulakou
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