Morocco has been attracting a rising number of high-profile foreign shoots since March 2022, lured by the country’s locations, skilled crews, competitive rates and its revamped cash rebate scheme, …
Morocco has been attracting a rising number of high-profile foreign shoots since March 2022, lured by the country’s locations, skilled crews, competitive rates and its revamped cash rebate scheme, which has been hiked from 20% to 30% of eligible spend.
To qualify for the rebate, productions must have a minimum Moroccan production spend of $1 million, an 18-day Moroccan shoot, at least a 25% local crew, and a local line producer. Following the lifting of lockdown restrictions in late 2021, Lucasfilm’s “Indiana Jones 5” began lensing, with a 100-man crew and a 3-week shoot in the historic city of Fez.
Alaoui has just produced a six-week Moroccan shoot for Disney India’s “The Freelancer,”, which shot in Tangier,Other recent projects include a two-day shoot in Marrakech for Legendary’s “Godzilla vs Kong 2” and another shoot for Legendary on Jeymes Samuel’s biblical tale, “The Book of Clarence,” which was partially filmed in Morocco.
He nonetheless identifies several bottlenecks, including major price hikes in studio and hotel costs in Ouarzazate, which is a key location for foreign shoots.Khadija Alami’s K Films is prepping a two-week Moroccan shoot on TV series “The Lioness,” starring Zoe Saldana. She is also working with another U.S. company, Danny Glover and producer Joslyn Barnes’ Louverture, on the second feature film from Moroccan-British helmer Tala Hadid, whose “Narrow Frame of Midnight” Alami produced in 2013.Alami has her own studio facility, Oasis Studios, in the desert-located Ouarzazate, and is the president of the Ouarzazate Film Commission.
Working with four partners, she is planning a brand new studio facility near Marrakech, with four sound stages, the first of which she hopes will open in late 2023. “When I talk about a project I believe in it and will do everything I can to make it happen”, she says.Kasbah Films, jointly managed by Karim Debbagh and Michael Dreher, line-produced the TV series, “Wheel of Time” which was the second major project lensed after the end of the pandemic, and was shot in Oasis Studios, Ouarzazate, between February to May, 2022.
Debbagh and Dreher highlight the need for a new major studio facility near Marrakech and are currently in negotiations with several partners for such a project.
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