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Jihan El-Tahri Biography

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Limited information is available about Jihan El-Tahri, whose profession and category are unknown. The exact dates of birth and death are not provided.

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“I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It’s not about, oh that’s what you should be doing.”

People Thinking Should Different Energy Six Perception Profound Scripts Different Perceptions

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives with a lot of suspicion because we're so inhabited by the notion of being colonized, the post-colonial thought that someone wants us to do something that is their interest and not ours and even it's not true, there's the suspicion of it like where is this going?”

Want Problem Interest Industry Notion Arise Posts Cinema Initiative Suspicion Want U

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“I think it's absolutely fantastic to give the combination of the major structural element for the growth of a filmmaker. It's technical know-how, some money to get on with it, and the dream that he can always grow.”

Thinking Knows Giving Dream Grows Growth Know How Elements Majors Fantastic Combination Filmmaker

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“There's always criticism in any process and I think that's a healthy thing.”

Thinking Process Healthy Criticism

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.”

Ifs Enough Young Asks Answers Scripts Come Up Filmmaker

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand.”

Certain Culture Black Color Notion Pitch Black

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

“What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema.”

Important Brands Cinema

Author:Jihan El-Tahri

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