With support from the FIFM Foundation, audio description of movies for Moroccan audiences will continue through the year with a further six movies slated for the service. With the addition of audio description, which adds a secondary soundtrack of narration of a movie’s visual elements, blind and vision impaired film fans can feel part of the full cinema experience.
The eight movies described for the recent festival included classic movies The African Queen and East of Eden, as well as modern movies such as the French musical comedy 8 Women and Moroccan production Lalla Hobby. The audio described program adds another facet to the already diverse annual festival, which in its tenth year featured 83 movies from 21 countries. Australian movie Snowtown was amongst the official selection for the feature film competition.
Read more about the festival and its audio described program in this article from the BBC.
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