Nidhal Chatta

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Nidhal Chatta shooting the film " Le Dernier Mirage "

Nidhal Chatta ( Arabic نضال شطا, DMG Niḍāl Šaṭṭā ; * 1958 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian film director , film producer and screenwriter . He is one of the most famous filmmakers in Tunisia. With his production company, he develops and produces documentary and cinema films in international co-production.

Life

education

Chatta lives and works in La Marsa and speaks fluent English and French. After graduating from La Marsa, he earned a degree in ecology from Loughborough University of Technology in the UK and completed postgraduate studies in oceanography and marine biology , also in the UK, before focusing on underwater and wildlife documentaries. He trained as a diver at the British Sub-Acqua Club and took advanced courses in scientific diving , wreck diving and underwater photography . Chatta attended John Strasberg's directing course in Paris (The Real Stage) and a Paris Institute for Film. He worked for the BBC for a short time . He made several underwater short films and movies. In 1994 Chatta started his production company based in Tunis.

Career

As a young man, Chatta had directed his career as a researcher and teacher. When he returned to Tunisia after completing his studies, he founded a diving club in La Marsa. He organized expeditions to the islands of Zembra and La Galite from El Haouaria , where his operational base was. He planned to set up a diving department at the Faculty of Science in Tunis. He came to the cinema through two encounters. The first of this kind took the train from London to Loughborough place when he happened to the supervisor of special effects of the movie Jaws met. The second meeting took place in Tunisia. The Carthago Films team , founder Tarak Ben Ammar , turned to him and asked for equipment, divers, security and supervision for the shooting of underwater sequences for the French film Saison Violente , based on the novel by Emmanuel Roblès . According to Chatta, this encounter marked the turning point in his career in the direction of the cinema industry. The main cameraman Henri-Jean Alliet of the Cousteau team was involved in the shooting . He offered him help in making his own short film. His first short film Lost Horizon (French title: L'Horizon Englouti), with Alliet as cameraman, he directed in 1984 (7 international awards) and won the Silver Palm Award of the Institut Français de la Mer in Paris in 1985. In 1999 he directed his first movie No Man's Love (Arabic title: Koul Trab), a Tunisian-French-German co-production. The film won awards for best debut film at the Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia in 2000 , before gaining international recognition in Paris , Valencia and Milan .

From 2004 to 2005 he was appointed project coordinator and technical director for the Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas program under the auspices of the Regional Activity Center for Specially Protected Areas in Tunis and the United Nations Environment Program . During this time he also served as Executive Producer for the documentary Between Earth & Sea , which was produced by the RAC / SPA and funded by the European Union .

The Tunisian production Le Dernier Mirage (English title: The Last Mirage), a thriller directed by Chatta as author and director since 2010, premiered in 2014. As part of the Carthage Film Festival 2010 in Tunisia, the first pre-screening took place in the Work in Progress category , in which this film in progress was awarded the Tunisie Telecom (Tunisian telecommunications company) prize.

Chatta's documentary Zero! from 2015 was the first co-production between Tunisia and India together with another producer from France. The documentary directed and produced by Nidhal Chatta is based on the travel route of a singular number, the number zero . “Zero!” Was shot in France, Tunisia and India and premiered on October 9, 2015 in New Delhi . The documentation is subtitled in French and English.

The feature film Mustafa Z (2017), directed and produced by Nidhal Chatta, is a multi-award-winning work, premiered and nominated in the “Best Film” category of the Carthage Film Festival 2017. a. the “Special Jury Prize” at the 34th International Mediterranean Film Festival in Alexandria and the “Best Political Film” award at the 11th Aryan Jaipur International Film Festival (2019). By participating in the International Arab Film Festival in Zurich 2018, the film (with German subtitles) also became known in German-speaking countries.

Filmography

As a director

  • 1984: Lost Horizon (short film)
  • 1984: Adventure Under the Sea (short film)
  • 1985: Champions (short film)
  • 1987: The Eye of the Zero (short film)
  • 1999: No Man's Love / Koul Trab
  • 2008: Abu Dhabi Police Department (TV action series)
  • 2010: Le Dernier Mirage
  • 2015: Zero! (Documentary)
  • 2017: Mustafa Z

As a producer

  • 1984: Lost Horizon (short film)
  • 1984: Adventure Under the Sea (short film)
  • 1985: Champions (short film)
  • 1987: The Eye of the Zero (short film)
  • 1992: Between the Lines III (TV series), episode: Foxtrot Oscar (production manager)
  • 2000: No Man's Love / Koul Trab
  • 2009: Nine Miles Down (Director of Film Production Tunisia)
  • 2015: Zero! (Documentary)
  • 2017: The History of Africa, Episode: North Africa (Director of Film Production Tunisia)
  • 2017: Mustafa Z
  • 2018: Whispering Sands (Executive Producer)

Awards (selection)

  • 1985: Silver Palm Award - Institut Français de la Mer, Paris for Lost Horizon
  • 2000: First Film Award - Carthage Film Festival for No Man's Love
  • 2010: Tunisie Telecom Award (Work in Progress) - Carthage Film Festival for Le Dernier Mirage
  • 2016: Artistic Contribution Award - Djerba Doc Days for Zero!
  • 2018: Best Film Kilimandjaro Award - 5th African Cinema Festival AFRICLAP of Toulouse for Mustafa Z
  • 2018: Special Jury Prize - 34th Alexandria International Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries for Mustafa Z
  • 2018: Best Film Award - Maghreb Film Festival Oujda for Mustafa Z
  • 2019: Best Political Film - 11th Jaipur International Film Festival for Mustafa Z

collaboration

Chatta has worked with actors such as Hichem Rostom and production members more than once during his career . Its main team and producer team have been consistent since the 1999 film No Man's Love . He was primarily responsible for the film production management of domestic and foreign productions. These include several films made in Tunisia, such as Nine Miles Down or Zeinab Badawi's documentary series The History of Africa (BBC). For another BBC production, he worked with Alan Dossor for the television series Between the Lines III , which was partly shot in Tunisia. For his movie No Man's Love , Chatta and Terry Forrestal, in the role of supervisor for the underwater scenes, and Mike Valentine, who was responsible as the underwater cameraman, relied on their experience in the implementation of the complex underwater shots of the film. Co-producers for this film were the German director Wolfgang Bergmann and the French-Tunisian producer Férid Memmich, who also worked as an actor in this and other of Chatta's films. For the purely Tunisian production of the film Le Dernier Mirage , Chatta worked with internationally known actors such as Jean-Marc Barr and Elisa Tovati . Chatta has worked with Universal Music France for a long time, as a director and co-producer, and has directed 125 commercials. He was executive producer on Nacer Khemir's film Whispering Sands .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Nidhal Chatta Biography (fr / en), Filmography, Awards, AfriCiné.org , accessed on July 8, 2019
  2. ↑ La critique autour des films du Maghreb, author Michel Amarger, Africultures , December 11, 2011, accessed on July 8, 2019
  3. ↑ Comme un film à la mer… Rencontre avec Nidhal Chatta, author Yassine Redissi, L'Instant M Tunisie , January 19, 2017, accessed on July 8, 2019
  4. ↑ Le cinéma est fait de rencontres ... Interview de Nidhal Chatta, author Naceur Sardi, Joumhouria March 26, 2018, accessed on July 8, 2019
  5. ↑ Homme du mois: le réalisateur Nidhal Chatta, author Raouia Kheder for Femmes de Tunisie December 22, 2017, accessed on July 11, 2019
  6. ↑ Final report of the Regional Project for the Development of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas in the Mediterranean Region (MedMPA) - by MedMPA RAC / SPA.org April 20, 2005, Project stuff Annex 1, page 39, accessed on July 8, 2019
  7. ↑ a b Les palmarès Carthage Film Festival 2010, JCC Tunisie.org , accessed July 8, 2019
  8. ↑ Tournage-Le dernier mirage de Nidhal Chatta: Un thriller saharien, author Mahrez Karoui for CinémAfritek January 11, 2010, accessed on July 10, 2019
  9. ↑ Le Zéro: le chiffre et les passions de l'humain, author Hakim Ben Hammouda / Tunis, October 31, 2015. Magasine Réalités N ° 1558 November 2015, accessed on July 8, 2019
  10. ↑ Zero un film documentaire réalisé par Nidhal Chatta sera projeté à New Delhi, Tuniscope October 9, 2015, accessed on July 8, 2019
  11. ↑ a b Djerba Doc Days 2016: la liste des gagnants, Nessma.tv , March 27, 2016, accessed on July 8, 2019
  12. ↑ JCC Carthage Film Festival 2017 , accessed July 8, 2019
  13. ↑ a b Palmarès d'Africlap 2018, Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique de Toulouse, author Thierno I. Dia for Image Francophone , September 5, 2018, accessed on July 8, 2019
  14. ↑ a b Tunisie - Egypte: Mustafa Z récompensé au Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen d'Alexandrie, author Di avec Médias for Directinfo , October 9, 2018, accessed on July 8, 2019
  15. ↑ a b The Tunisian movie "Mustapha Z" wins Grand Prix at the Maghreb Film Festival in Oujda, Newsbeezer June 28, 2018, accessed on July 8, 2019
  16. ↑ a b Awards Announced for 11th Aryan Jaipur International Film Festival-Jiff 2019, Jiff India.org , January 2019, accessed on July 8, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Chatta, Nidhal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES نضال شطا (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian film director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis , Tunisia