Director and screenwriter Sofia Alaoui has signed with WME for illustration in all areas. She continues to be represented by Jerome Duboz of Ithaka Media.
Born in Casablanca and raised in China, Alaoui is a French-Moroccan artist with an goal to create cinema that spans throughout borders and bends genres in new methods. After premiering her function directorial debut, “Animalia” on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Alaoui gained a particular jury prize for inventive imaginative and prescient. The movie is a science fiction movie that’s rooted in realism with political themes.
Her quick movie “So What If The Goats Die,” which tells the story of an extraterrestrial invasion in Imilchil (a Berber village positioned within the Atlas Mountains), gained the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and the César Award for Best Short Film in 2021.
Alaoui has since redirected her abilities to TV and is now growing the collection, “Let The Earth Burn” alongside Måns Mårlind (“The Bridge”). The collection was unveiled through the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra Arab movie and TV collection initiatives incubator in March.
In a earlier dialog with Variety, Alaoui revealed the present was impressed by actual kidnappings of youngsters Morocco labeled as “Zouhri,” whom the abductors imagine have particular powers.
“I examine these kidnappings within the newspaper, and I assumed, ‘This is loopy!’” Alaoui mentioned on the time. “The [medieval] follow is that they sacrifice these younger youngsters so as to achieve some supernatural drive themselves. I mentioned to myself: how can this nonetheless exist? And I puzzled whether or not these crimes say one thing concerning the society.”
