About:
Casablanca Mon Amour is a modern road movie that encapsulates the more complex and fractured nature of living in a world where TV and wars compete for headlines and occupy imaginations.

Using movies as a road map between yesterday’s Hollywood and today’s Morocco, Casablanca Mon Amour offers a Moroccan perspective on the long and entwined relationship between Hollywood and The Arab/Muslim World.

Casablanca Mon Amour offers more than a dry critique of the impact of media on culture. Instead, the film takes a human and humorous look at the effects Hollywood films have on people’s imaginations and affords Moroccan’s (our movie set ‘extras’) an opportunity to talk back—which they do in intelligent, witty and wildly ingenious ways. 

Morocco (2012) Arabic and French 

Press:

THE NEW YORK TIMES –
Moroccan road film subverts Hollywood stereotypes: (The) dichotomy between the representation and the reality of Morocco drives Slattery’s charming paean to a country he clearly loves and makes “Casablanca Mon Amour” a thoughtful rejoinder to U.S. popular culture.

REORIENT- Middle Eastern Arts & Culture Magazine –
Casablanca Mon Amour presents a powerful critique of the rather odd affair between Hollywood and the Arab world, from both ends of the spectrum.

Dr. Jack Shaheen, author of Reel Bad Arabs and former CBS news consultant on Middle East affairs –
A film that replaces myths with humanity and humor –Casablanca Mon Amour offers an entertaining road map between yesteryear’s Hollywood and today’s Morocco.

Festivals:
San Francisco Film Society – Special Preview Screening Nov 2012 Dubai International Film Festival – World Premiere, Dec 2012
Middle East Film Now, Festival, Florence, Italy – European Premiere, Apr 2013
Montreal World Film Festival, – N. American Premiere Aug 2013
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Aug 2013
Arab Film Festival, Harmony Gold Theatre, Los Angeles, Oct 2013
Arab Film Festival, Berkeley Landmark Theatre, Oct 2013
Arabian Sights Film Festival, Washington D.C., Oct 2013
International Festival of Ethnographic Film (IFEF), Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov 2013
Beeld Voor Beeld Festival, Nat. Film Institute of the Netherlands, Dec 2013
Middle East North Africa Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, Jan 2014
Palm Beach International Film Festival, Palm Beach Florida, April 2014
Göttingen Intern. Ethnographic Film Festival, Göttingen, Germany, May 2014
Alliance Français, San Francisco March 2014
BBC Arabic TV Cinema Badila Program, Multi-Broadcast, Summer 2014
Inst. for European Ethnology& Cultural Studies, Marburg, Germany, July 2014
African World Fest, presented by Arab American Nat Museum Detroit, Aug 2014
Louisville International Festival of Film, Louisville, KY, Oct 2014
Gig Harbor Film Festival, Gig Harbor, WA, Oct 2014
Tiburon Film Society, Sausalito, CA, Mar 2015
Ethnografilm, Cine 13 Theatre, Paris, France, Apr 2015
Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2015
Pan African Film Fest(UCLA Center for Near East Stu), Los Angeles,CA,Feb 2016
Defy Film Festival, Nashville, TN Aug 2016
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Apr 2018
The Media Majils, Northwestern University in Qatar, 2020