Rachid Bouchareb

Rachid Bouchareb born September 1 1953 near Paris is a French film director of Algerian descent From 1977 to 1983 he worked as an assistant director for Frances state television production company Société française de production SFP Subsequetly he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2 He formed a production company called 3B with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988 Bouchareb began making short films in the 1980s His featured film debut came in 1985 with Baton Rouge Since then his acclaimed films have included Poussières de vie Dust of Life which received an Academy Award nomination in 1995for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995 Little Senegal which was shown in competition at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival and Days of Glory which received the Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 2006 and also won prizes at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival Boucharebs films have a following amongst international cineastes His film Horslaloi competed for the Palme dOr at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May It was the Algerian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and was one of the five final nominees Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachid Bouchareb licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia