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2015 Marrakech Int. Film Fest: Park-Chan Wook, Kiarostami & Akin Offer Masterclass…Team Zissou Pair Celebrated

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It’s suntory time folks. Park-Chan Wook, Abbas Kiarostami and Fatih Akin will be giving master classes while two members of the Team Zissou faction in Willem Dafoe and Bill Murray will be honored with career tributes at the upcoming 2015 Marrakech Int. Film Fest (December 4th to the 12th). The star-studded attendees already include a who’s who jury. Dafoe has Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall, Hector Babenco’s My Hindu Friend and Tommy Wirkola’s What Happened to Monday? coming up while Murray has recently added a brand pair to his filmography with Barry Levinson’s Rock the Kasbah (a subpar effort from the director) and Sofia Coppola’s star-studded side project between features in A Very Murray Christmas.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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