Yassine el Idrissi
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Yassine El Idrissi started his career as a photojournalist, having
discovered a lifelong passion for photography at the age of sixteen.
He has been employed by numerous international organizations including
the Dutch news agency, ANP, and Moroccan newspapers Al Jarida Al Oula
and Al Massae to capture current events in Morocco and across the
region.
His passion for telling the story through images led him to produce
and self finance his first documentary film, Waiting for the snow
(2009), which screened at international festivals including the Geneva
Human Rights Film Festival, and the Madrid Documentary Festival. The
film chronicles the life of a family who struggle to make a living,
waiting for the snow to signal the start of the tourist season in one
of Morocco's top winter holiday resorts. On the film, which took over
two years to complete.
Continuing his work as a photojournalist, Yassine captured and integrated the pressing socio-economic and political issues he covered as a photographer in his second documentary, Welcome to the Zoo (2010), which investigates the decay of the Rabat zoo as a metaphor for the urgent change needed in Morocco and the events unfolding in the current Arabic revolution.
in 2013 Yassine graduated with a master's degree from the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Continuing his work as a photojournalist, Yassine captured and integrated the pressing socio-economic and political issues he covered as a photographer in his second documentary, Welcome to the Zoo (2010), which investigates the decay of the Rabat zoo as a metaphor for the urgent change needed in Morocco and the events unfolding in the current Arabic revolution.
in 2013 Yassine graduated with a master's degree from the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.