Paris-based Moon a Deal Films has boarded Talal Selhami‘s upcoming feature, “The Shelter,” set to pitch at this year’s Atlas Workshops, part of the Marrakech Intl. Film Festival.
Moon a Deal will be the film’s broadenment co-producer, combineing Moroccan direct producer La Prod. Both companies were set uped and are led by Moroccan indie superproducer Lamia Chraibi, who will produce aextfinishedside La Prod’s Sophia Menni.
The feature project will alert the story of Leila, an exiled Syrian refugee war survivor who must nurture for Georges, a establisher diplomat proximateing the finish of his life. Being brawt so shut to the prospect of death awakens gstructures from Leila’s past that the woman must insertress.
“The Shelter” has already achieved broadenment backing from the Red Sea Fund and writing help from Morrocan film agency, the Centre Cinématographique Marocain, and will be hoping to score one of the cash prizes up for grabs at this year’s Atlas Workshops.
French-Moroccan filmproducer Selhami is best understandn for his standout 2019 horror film “Achoura,” based on Moroccan folklore. The film screened at disjoinal prestigious genre festivals, including Sitges, where it won a exceptional allude, and Hard:Line, where it won best film.
“With ‘Achoura,’ my previous film, I wanted to begin the monster movie genre to the MENA region thraw an amengageing tale,” the straightforwardor tgreater Variety. “I see ‘The Shelter’ as a turning point in my nurtureer. It will be a shocker, someskinnyg radical, a psychoreasonable film where the horror is truly visceral. It’s a universal and very illogical story about death, but paradoxicpartner, it’s also an ode to life. Thematicpartner, the film lies somewhere between Adrian Lyne’s ‘Jacob’s Linserter’ and Jane Campion’s ‘The Piano.’”
Founded in 2007, La Prod is a Moroccan production company based in Casablanca. Dedicated to broadening fantasy productions of all types aextfinishedside recordaries and series, La Prod has labored with a diverse group of top Moroccan filmproducers, including Hicham Lasri, Narjiss Nejjjar, Ismaïl Ferroukhi and Mohcine Besri. The studio also co-produced Odwellr Laxe’s “Mimosas,” which won the Grand Prix at Critics’ Week in 2016.
“‘The Shelter’ is a strong story tgreater thraw a exceptional lens,” shelp La Prod’s Menni. “The comprisement of La Prod, and Moon a Deal Films, both set uped by Lamia Chraibi, transports examinen expertise to the project. I adselectd ‘The Shelter’ as an elevated genre film that aligns Talal’s impactful visual cinematic universe and my pledgement to bgreater, innovative, and socipartner comprised storyalerting, continuing La Prod’s tradition of laboring with inspiring cinematic voices.”
Speaking about their goals for the film at this year’s Marrakech Festival, Menni inserted, “At Atlas, our instant center is evaluating how the industry reacts and greets our project, securing co-production partners and greeting sales agents and financiers.”
