Building an Alternative Distribution Network for Moroccan Cinema: Online Audiences, Festival Networks and Transnational Talent Development

为摩洛哥电影建立替代发行网络：在线观众、电影节网络和跨国人才发展

• 批准号: AH/T001038/1
• 负责人: William Higbee
• 金额: $ 10.19万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT001038%2F1
• 关键词: Building; Alternative; Distribution; Network; Moroccan

The project builds on unplanned opportunities for impact and engagement activities beyond academia that have emerged during the AHRC-funded Transnational Moroccan Cinema research project. It aims to provide a greater visibility to Moroccan cinema by bringing three artistically innovative but little-known Moroccan films (one narrative feature, one documentary feature and one short film) to the attention of a diverse range of audiences in Morocco, the UK and internationally (via online distribution). This will be achieved by working with film archives and Moroccan filmmakers or producers to locate the films, secure the rights to screen them and then work with specialists in digital restoration as well as subtitlers to produce a high-quality digital cinema package (DCP) of each films. The films will then be launched across the network of four UK film festivals specialising in African or Arab cinema and at two festivals in Morocco before being made available for free online for a period of 12 months. Using a group of online 'influencers' to bring these films to the attention of a transnational audience online, the intention is to reach as wide and diverse an audience as possible, not just researchers and cinephiles who may already be aware of these films and filmmakers.In essence, this project is a response to the challenge laid down by filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins for researchers, translators and film archivists to make significant but little known films from across the world more visible to as wide an audience as possible. Disseminating these films to an online audience will therefore enhance the understanding and appreciation of Moroccan cinema more generally. However, this project also focuses on how the wider recognition of these films can act as a catalyst for a series of more targeted initiatives. A second stage of this project will thus build on the visibility given to these lost classics of Moroccan cinema in order to: (a) allow the films to be used as a focal point for emerging Moroccan filmmakers to better understand their own film history and how such an understanding can inform and enhance their own filmmaking(b) offer a space for encounter between film schools in Morocco and abroad (more specifically the UK) that can develop collaboration, networking, training and a sharing of knowledge in what might be described as a process of transnational talent development for emerging Moroccan filmmakers(c) encourage new initiatives and collaboration between the film industry, festival organisers, and policy makers in Morocco and the UK relating to international co-production and new strategies for distribution (d) produce a video essay inspired by the three digitally restored Moroccan films that offers an innovative way of thinking about these films will bring the films to the attention of cinephiles, researchers and students of world cinema, who may be aware of their existence, and the diversity of Moroccan cinema more generally.

该项目建立在计划外的机会，在AHRC资助的跨国摩洛哥电影研究项目期间出现的学术界以外的影响和参与活动。它旨在通过将三部艺术创新但鲜为人知的摩洛哥电影（一部叙事故事片，一部纪录片和一部短片）带给摩洛哥，英国和国际上（通过在线发行）各种观众的关注，提高摩洛哥电影的知名度。这将通过与电影档案馆和摩洛哥电影制片人或制片人合作来实现，以找到电影，获得放映权，然后与数字修复专家以及字幕制作人合作，为每部电影制作高质量的数字电影包（DCP）。然后，这些电影将在四个专门从事非洲或阿拉伯电影的英国电影节网络和摩洛哥的两个电影节上推出，然后在网上免费提供12个月。利用一群网络“影响者”将这些电影在网上引起跨国观众的注意，目的是尽可能广泛和多样化的观众，而不仅仅是那些可能已经知道这些电影和电影制作人的研究人员和电影爱好者。本质上，这个项目是对电影制作人和评论家马克·雷金斯为研究人员提出的挑战的回应，翻译和电影档案管理员，使重要的，但鲜为人知的电影来自世界各地更容易看到尽可能广泛的观众。因此，向在线观众传播这些电影将更普遍地提高对摩洛哥电影的理解和欣赏。然而，该项目还侧重于如何使这些电影得到更广泛的认可，从而推动一系列更有针对性的举措。因此，该项目的第二阶段将以这些已失传的摩洛哥电影经典的知名度为基础，以便：（a）使电影成为摩洛哥新兴电影制作人的焦点，以更好地了解自己的电影历史，以及这种了解如何为自己的电影制作提供信息和加强自己的电影制作（B）为摩洛哥和国外的电影学校提供交流的空间（更具体地说，英国），可以发展合作，网络，培训和知识共享，这可以被描述为新兴摩洛哥电影制片人的跨国人才发展过程（c）鼓励电影业，电影节组织者，与摩洛哥和联合王国的决策者就国际合作生产和新的分销战略进行磋商（d）制作一个视频文章的灵感来自三个数字恢复摩洛哥电影，提供了一个创新的方式思考这些电影将带来的电影电影爱好者，研究人员和世界电影的学生，谁可能知道他们的存在，以及摩洛哥电影的多样性更普遍的注意。