Nezha Drissi-Cohen

Nezha Drissi-Cohen
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Producer, Teacher, Director of the festival
(Female)
Principal country concerned : Column : Theater, Cinema/tv

Moroccan film Producer (1965-2011).

Nezha has over 12 years of experience in audiovisual production and since 1996 has produced over 50 documentary films (series and single productions) from which many has won awards in French and foreign film festivals.

After 5 years spent managing LES FILMS GRAIN DE SABLE production company, producing films of Jean Michel Carré and other directors, she decided to create TACT Production (the acronym in French stands for Télévision Audiovisuel Cinéma pour Tous).

The creation of TACT Production in 2001 stems from the desire to produce quality documentary and fiction films in France and abroad. Films which translate the world in which we live, which recount, express and explore our societies, in all their complex diversity.

Nezha is a regular consultant for AIBD (Asia-pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development) as a teacher in "Cultural & Educational TV Documentary programs" and she is also a teacher in Audiovisual Production managing at "Marne La Vallée" University.

In 2004, she was a jury member of the 1st International Women Film Festival of Salé (with Nargiss Nejjar as President). In 2007, she was a documentary jury member of the 13rd International Mediteranean Film Festival of Tetuan.

In 2007, TACT Production Morocco is born with the aim to be part of a South-North dialogue, setting up coproductions between Morocco and France as well as with other Southern countries and European ones, and with countries from Latin America.

She died on Sunday 4 December 2011, in a car accident, in Casablanca, Morocco.

Filmography

Nezha previous producions
(for Les Films Grain de Sable - from 1997 to 2001)

2001...
A test of solidarity
by Jean-Luc COHEN (52' - La Cinquième)
Analysis of the perverse effects of the 35-hour working week and annualization in the public works sector.
SELECTION TO "CHILDHOOD & YOUTH" OF "TRACES DE VIE" FESTIVAL

Violence in school
by Daniel Kupferstein (52' - La Cinquième)
An analysis of the phenomenon drawing on events in different locations.

2000...

Initiation class
by Louis Bastin (52' - La Cinquième)
A year in a primary school with non french speaker children of between 6 and 12 years - a journey of initiation and integration.
WINNER OF THE CHILHOOD & YOUTH 1st PRIZE - "TRACES DE VIE" FESTIVAL

Zuriko, from the Caucasus to Montmartre
by Louis Bastin (26' - Canal+)
Zuriko, 11 years old, is a Georgian Kurd who, together with his family, is taking the obstacle-strewn path of the asylum-seeker to Paris

The Challenge of the Tembé
by J. Cormier et J.-L. Cohen (52' - France 3)
A tribe of indians in the Brazilian Amazon struggling to combat deforestation.
FESTIVAL "JULES VERNE" / ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM COMMITTEE / IMAGES D'AILLEURS

Truly, Passionately, Madly?
by J.-M. Carré (76' - France 2)
A group of young autistic and psychologically disturbed people successfully shoot a story on film.
Amiens International Film Festival / Lorquin Psychology Congress / Portugal

1999...

Stories of Youth, the family, the work and the values
by J.-M. Carré (3x52' - Fance 2 / La Cinquième)
The voice is given to French joungsters from 15 to 25 years old.
Nominated for the 7 d'Or awards

Portrait of a generation for the year 2000
by J.-M. Carré / J.-L. Cohen / M. Guiraud / E. Nobécourt / C. Weiss / L. Bastin / A. Nordvquist / A. Gallien / J. Emery / M.-D. Dehlsing (45x13' - La Cinquième)
Portraits of young Europeans from 9 different countries : who are these adults of the new millenium?
Nominated for the 7 d'Or awards

Fighting for the future / Burning Coals
by J.-M. Carré (90' - La Sept-Arte / 52' - La Cinquième)
The original story of a group of Welsh miners, now proprietors of their own mine.
Winner of Best documentary award at the Dei Popoli Festival.
Presented at several festivals :
Cinéma du Réel / Rencontres Internationales de Montréal / Vision of Reality Festival - Nyon / IDFA / Scheffield / Leipzig / Portugal, etc.

A Question of Class(es)
by J.-M. Carré (80' - soirée Théma La Sept-Arte)
A film which follows the progress of an infants' class : what does the current education system offer them?

1998...

Mose... tell me something funny!
by A. Le Couteur (56' - TV10 Angers)
A tender and intimate portrait of one of France's most famous cartoon humourists.

One reaps what one sow
by J.-L. Cohen (55' - La Cinquième)
Portrait of a generous and combative union delegate in the public contruction sector.
Rencontres Internationales du doc. de Montréal
Festival international de Namur / Etats généraux du doc / Portugal, etc.
FIGRA Best editing award / Award of the Youth at Festival d'Erstein

The story of childhood
by J.-M. Carré (52' - La Cinquième)
An analysis of the children status in our societies from the 18th century to to our time.

Skin or Die
by D. Schweizer (52' - Arte/TSR)
The wave of skinhead culture throughout Europe.
Festival International du Cinéma Documentaire: Vision du Réel-Nyon

TV for the Blind
by P. Guinard. (13' - Canal +)
How the blind "watch" television?

1997...
Refugees, go home / Hong-Kong/Hanoi : Return to the Camps
by J.-M. Carré (52' - Coproduction Planète)
The return to Vietnam of refugee families from Hong Kong after the reinstatement of Chinese rule.

Organizations

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Articles

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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