Marrakech E-Show Daily Number Two

TOP STORIES: Scorsese Vaunts Marrakech Film Fest as Crossroads of World's Film Industries; Moroc...

Marrakech Film Festival eSHOW DAILY NUMBER TWO 12.02.13

TOP STORIES Scorsese Vaunts Marrakech Film Fest as Crossroads of World's Film Industries By Elsa Keslassy MARRAKECH-- Movie powerhouses, led by Martin Scorsese and his fellow Marrakech film fest jury members including Fatih Akin, Paolo Sorrentino, Park Chan-wook and Marion Cotillard, exchanged thoughts on world cinema, personal inspirations and ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Morocco's Megarama Plans To Open 3 New Multiplexes in 2014 By Martin Dale Morocco's exhibition sector will see a 50% rise in the number of screens in 2014, as the French-Moroccan group Megarama prepares to open three new multiplexes – in Tangiers, Rabat and Agadir. In the 1990s, Morocco had over 250 screens and cl... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Femme Filmmakers Break Barriers in Morocco By Elsa Keslassy MARRAKECH, Morocco -- Laila Marrakchi, Narjiss Nejjar and Leila Kilani are among the diverse pool of femme directors making strides and powering up Moroccan cinema's coming of age. As Sally Shafto, a film scholar and writer, points out, Moro... Read Full Story at Variety.com → One or Two Things I Know About James Gray By Scott Foundas James Gray will deliver a directing masterclass Monday at the Marrakech Film Festival - after "The Immigrant" screened Sunday to a packed audience. The masterclass' moderator, Scott Foundas, Variety's chief film critic, reflects on his evolv... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Juliette Binoche Talks 'Godzilla,' 'Jurassic Park' and Auteurs in Marrakech By Elsa Keslassy MARRAKECH -- Attending the Marrakech Film Festival to receive a career tribute and present her latest film, Eric Poppe's "A Thousand Times Good Night," French thesp Juliette Binoche took the time to sit down with a handful of film journos at... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Lee Su-Jin: 'The Challenge Is to Create a New, Entertaining, Bankable Story' By Alex Stedman 36-year-old South Korean director Lee Su-Jin is currently attending the 13th Marrakech film festival, where his debut pic, "Han Gong-Ju" has its international premiere -- playing in Official Competition. The pic won the CGV Movie Collage Awa... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this

Subscribe to Additional Variety Newsletters This email was sent to ignoble.experiment@arconati.us by Variety. To ensure delivery to your inbox (and not your spam folder), please add eshow-daily@variety.com to your address book. If you prefer not to continue receiving email communications, please unsubscribe here instead of replying to this email. Having trouble reading this email? View the web version here. Copyright © 2013 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media. 9800 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90301 Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC., used under license.