Nejib Ayed

Nejib Ayed (Arabic: نجيب عياد‎), born December 13 in Ksar Hellal, 1953[1] in Ksar Hellal and died on August 16, 2019,[2] was a Tunisian producer. He was the executive director of the Carthage Film Festival in 2017 and 2018.

Nejib Ayed
نجيب عياد
Nejib Ayed during the Carthage film festival in 2018.
Born(1953-12-13)December 13, 1953
Ksar Hellal, Tunisia
DiedAugust 16, 2019(2019-08-16) (aged 65)
Tunis
NationalityTunisian
OccupationFilm Producer

Biography

Born in 1953 in Ksar Hellal, in the Sousse region, Néjib Ayed is part of a generation that has combined a passion for cinema and an almost militant commitment within the Tunisian Federation of Film Clubs. In the 1970s, marked by Burgundian authoritarianism, these circles represented spaces for political learning. After studying French literature, Néjib Ayed tried his hand at film criticism before joining, in 1980, the Tunisian Anonymous Company for Cinematographic Production and Expansion (Satpec), a public institution (privatized since) which groups all stages cinematographic: the production for which he was responsible, but also the production, exploitation and distribution.

The films he produces do not hesitate to deal with sensitive societal issues. "He was the first to address sexual harassment on the screen," recalls feminist activist Mounira Hammami.

In 2008, in a Tunisia still under authoritarian rule, La Chasse aux gazelles recounts the violence at work of a young woman employed in a textile factory and coveted by her superior. It is one of ten soap operas broadcast on television during the month of Ramadan, a date that Tunisians love after the break in the fast. Then, in 2015 and 2016, mafia, drugs and organ trafficking were the subject of the series Naouret El Hawa ("the windmill"). A disconcerting drama, but one that marked the public.[3]

Filmography
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gollark: i.e. demonstrate that they can actually function well, enforce the law reasonably, have reasonable laws *to* enforce in the first place, with available resources/data, **before** invading everyone's privacy with the insistence that they will totally make everyone safer.
gollark: Reduced privacy in return for more safety and stuff might be better if governments had a track record of, well, actually doing that sort of thing effectively.
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gollark: Invading people's privacy a lot allows you to get somewhat closer to "perfect enforcement".

References

This article incorporates text translated from French Wikipedia

  1. "Qui est Néjib Ayed, nouveau directeur des Journées cinématographiques de Carthage?". huffpostmaghreb.com (in French).
  2. "Décès de Nejib Ayed : le cinéma en deuil". leaders.com.tn (in French).
  3. "Tunisie : mort de Néjib Ayed, directeur des Journées cinématographiques de Carthage". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2019-08-21. Retrieved 2020-05-07.

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