The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Morocco
This page contains a list of the greatest Moroccan Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Morocco. This makes Morocco the birth place of the 89th most number of Film Directors behind Guinea-Bissau, and Cambodia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moroccan Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Moroccan Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Med Hondo (1936 - 2019)
With an HPI of 48.30, Med Hondo is the most famous Moroccan Film Director. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Med Hondo (born Mohamed Abid; 4 May 1935 – 2 March 2019) was a Mauritanian-born French director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Considered a founding father of African cinema, he is known for his controversial films dealing with issues such as race relations and colonization. His critically acclaimed 1970 directorial début feature, Soleil O, received the Golden Leopard award at the 1970 Locarno International Film Festival and was chosen in 2019 by the African Film Heritage Project for restoration. His 1979 film West Indies was the first African film musical and, at $1.3 million, the most expensive production in African film history. In his later years, Hondo became known for dubbing Hollywood hits that included Shrek, The Lion King, The Nutty Professor, and Se7en.
2. Robin Campillo (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 42.65, Robin Campillo is the 2nd most famous Moroccan Film Director. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Robin Campillo (French: [ʁɔbɛ̃ kɑ̃pijo]; born 16 August 1962) is a Moroccan-born French screenwriter, editor and film director. He is known for his work on films such as The Class (2008), Heading South (2005), the French zombie film They Came Back (2004), Eastern Boys (2013), and Time Out (2001), the latter of which was placed at ninety-nine on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s, number nine of The Guardian's Best Films of the noughties, and number eleven at The A.V. Club's top fifty films of the 2000s. In 2017, he released 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) which received mass acclaim and went on to garner many awards, including the Grand Prix and 2017 César Award for Best Film.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Moroccan film directors born between 1936 and 1962. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Moroccan film directors include Robin Campillo. The most famous deceased Moroccan film directors include Med Hondo.
