Ahmed Boulane

Ahmed Boulane was in Salé, Morocco. He was expelled from school three times, and was only 15 when they threw him out for good. However, this didn't stop him from learning to speak four languages fluently. Boulane was an actor with the Moroccan National Theater Company and the national Moroccan radio theater troupe from 1974 to 1977. His first job in the cinema was with Nabyl Lahlou in a wacky Moroccan movie, Al-Kanfoudi. He was hired to play the part of a young, unemployed man but Boulane found it impossible to leave the set once he had finished being an actor. He tried his hand as a boom operator and grip (both of these too physically strenuous for him), and eventually finished the film as a floor assistant. But Ahmed Boulane had been bitten by the bug, a passion that has been the motor for a rich and varied career in cinema and television as actor, location manager, assistant director, casting director, and awarded screenwriter/director/producer. During the past 40 years he has wor