Director of Photography Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our team supplies directors of photography who shape the visual language of a Moroccan production, working with the director to design and capture its look. We brief DPs on the country's distinctive assets: the steady warm light of more than 300 sunny days a year, the compact range of terrain from desert to mountain to medina to ocean, and the skilled camera crews based around Ouarzazate.

On the ground, Directors of photography we place lead the camera and lighting departments, choose formats and lenses, design the lighting way for studio and location, and run the look through to the grade. They plan for desert conditions — heat, dust, the changing angle of the sun — and set up with the camera ops, the gaffer and the DIT. Most are fluent in French, Arabic and English. This makes top the multilingual crews Moroccan shoots assemble efficient.

Here is the short of it. Morocco's appeal to cinematographers is foundational: for over sixty years, directors of photography have come for the warm desert light, the more-than-300 sunny days a year, and a terrain that gives ancient cities, dunes, mountains and coast within a tight radius. That history runs from 'Lawrence of Arabia' through 'Gladiator', 'Babel', 'Spectre' and 'Game of Thrones', and the Ouarzazate camera base is among the most skilled anywhere on large-scale epics. The ISMAC in Rabat trains cinematographers. A domestic cinema reaching Cannes and the Oscars sustains the craft. All production runs within the CCM framework: foreign shoots obtain CCM authorisation and partner with a CCM-licensed local production-services firm. With camera gear imported on ATA Carnets clearing Customs through the ADII.