Set up in 1999 by Lahoucine Faouzi and Abdallah Dari, Faouzi Vision has as its goal : the conception, development and audio-visual production of programs, TV and institutional films.
In 2002, Faouzi Vision launched its first telefilm called “The Seven Waves of Imourane”. This historical full-length film won 2 prizes at the Radio and Television Festival of Cairo.
The “Amouddou” documentary series, the second great success of Faouzi Vision was a big hit and won the prize for best Director at the same Festival in the same year.
These two creations continue to win other prizes and to interest television channels and distribution companies.
Thus Faouzi Vision has been able to increase its output.
The success of these two big productions encouraged the two founders to invest in technical equipment for shooting and post-production. Equipped in HDCAM format, DVCAM and DIGITAL BETA, Faouzi Vision now has its own lighting equipment, machines and logistical means.
Why Amouddou?
Morocco is known for the wealth of its great variety of fossils: from invertebrates to vertebrates and from microscopic fossils to dinosaurs. It is also rich in mineral resources: from precious metals like gold and silver to great phosphate basins. It has to be pointed out that our country’s mineral wealth has been known since Antiquity and through trade exchanges of precious metals, opened the doors to Europe. This socio-economic North African area has seen the development of several cities that have influenced Moroccan civilisation in the areas of Tafilalt, Souss, Saquia El Hamra, Wad Eddahab (river of gold). Morocco, the paradise of geologists, also has its Souss-Massa-Draâ area, well known for its mineral wealth, possessing more than the half of our country’s mineral resources. This specific area is also famous for its gold deposits at Akka, near Agadir, of silver, at Imiter, near Ouarzazate, cobalt and nickel at Bou-Azzer and its beautiful marbles and ornamental stones at Lakhssass and pink granite at Sidi Ifni.
Unfortunately,the speleological sites and paleontological and archaeological resources are victims of forbidden excavations and to unauthorized pillaging for speculative reasons (local sales, illegal exportation, etc.). This archeological and fossil patrimony must be saved and enhanced by the media and thus participating in the interest of tourists within the ecological geo-touristic framework.
Hydrological Patrimony:
The hydrological patrimony of the country is provided by many natural reservoirs (rivers, lakes, underground water tables). The mobilisation of these water resources is done using different techniques from traditional means (séguias, direct piping, naouras) to highly technical engineering (dams, drilling, large pipes…).
Thanks to its great geological diversity, Morocco offers a wide range of aquatic formations. Over its whole territory there are about thirty deep aquatic basins (200 at 1000 metres deep) and about 50 superficial water-tables.
Of these 80 water-tables which have been found, the potential resources which could be exploited in acceptable technical and economic conditions, are estimated at 4 billion m3. The Atlas water-tables play a role of regulative reservoirs, springs are numerous and reinforce the low flow of most of the rivers.
Despite these resources in water, in some hydrological basins at least, the management of water is sometimes run in an inappropriate way. The main causes of this bad management are various:
• Legislative and institutional : several lakes or river sites are still used to dispose of liquid or solid waste.
• Socio-economic : the notion of water as a rare resource is not generally understood by most users.
• The use of adapted technologies, (flooding, supply of drinking water, the recycling of dirty water, etc.), has not been generalized.
The documentaries which have been made are aimed at a public that knows little about earth and water sciences and they contribute to the spread and popularisation of scientific culture in a large public (schools, colleges, high schools, local populations, etc.). From geographical and geological observations on the ground, within the framework of the sites they have studied, scientists try to explain the main facts which have modelled the landscape and its wealth in natural resources. They try to show how the geological history of an area can be deduced from observation and that this history depends on large scale geological phenomena which affect all or part of a continent : it is the result of the movement of tectonic plates and erosion.
They also show that all these phenomena evolve very slowly, over millions of years, which explains their tremendous impact on the sculpting of relief and landscapes.
Cultural Patrimony (Natural parks, archaeological sites…)
Goals and Objectives: :
The goals and the objectives which are expected from these socio-cultural documentaries are multiple :
 To reconcile the demands of development and the exploitation of the natural, social and cultural patrimony.
To save local traditions such as regional costumes, local cuisine, folklore and dances, etc.
To make citizens aware of the importance of protecting natural resources.
To promote scientific and cultural tourism (eco-tourism and geo-tourism).
To make citizens and visitors aware of the necessity of protecting natural, archaeological and historical sites.
To protect and exploit the geological patrimony and the environment of our country in general.
To take place in programs and rehabilitation strategies in the rural areas.
To be part of the movement for sustainable development in the regions.
To take part in the prevention of socio-economic problems linked to water and soil resources.
To make people more aware of the importance of water resources.
To take part in the exploitation of some sites which have a tourist vocation (lakes, caves, rivers, waterfalls) while preserving the environment at the same time.
To encourage the development of sensible water conservation and the conservation of the environment in general.
To encourage the development of sensible water conservation and the conservation of the environment in general.
To take part in the popularisation of science in the general public.
« Morocco is a geological shop-window where its various facets are sumptuously exposed » Professor Jean Dercourt.
«Termites know what they have to do inside an anthill, as well as ants. As for Humans, it’s different » Clever intuition of Theodore Monod |
