Jérôme Cohen-Olivar (born 1964) is a Moroccan-French film director, best known for Kandisha (2008), a fantasy film inspired by the myth of Aicha Kandicha.

Life

Cohen-Olivar mostly grew up in Morocco, where he made movies on super 8mm film, before moving to Los Angeles. Susan Susan, his first short film, was a satire about secret immigration to the United States, bought by Disney for about $300,000.[1]

The Midnight Orchestra, a comedy based around the story of a man travelling to Morocco to revive his father's orchestra, examined the experiences of Jews leaving Morocco.[2] It won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Montreal World Film Festival in 2015.[3]

Works

• Susan Susan, 1987 (short)
• Cool Crime, 1999
• Kandisha, 2008
• The Midnight Orchestra (L'orchestre de minuit), 2015
• The 16th Episode / Little Horror Movie, 2018

References

External links

• Jerome Cohen-Olivar Discusses ‘Little Horror Movie’, Horror News Network, 5 November 2018.

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