Moroccan journalist, TV columnist, editor-in-chief, writer, screenwriter, producer and director.

Fouad SOUIBA is a journalist, TV columnist, editor-in-chief, writer, screenwriter, producer and director.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, on February 16, 1963, Fouad Souiba studied in Morocco and Quebec, before obtaining a degree in communication and journalism. Since 1982 he has carried out an intense activity as a journalist, TV columnist, host of film festivals. A journalist by training and career, Fouad Souiba has worked in several Moroccan dailies, on radio and television as a program host and producer of special editions. Editor-in-chief of several magazines including Cinémasrah and Al Machhad, he is co-author with Fatima Zahra El Alaoui of the book A Century of Cinema in Morocco. He is also a member of the editorial board of the book Regards Immortels conducted under the direction of Larbi Esqualli and contributor to other collective books.
Screenwriter, producer and director of a series of 10 documentaries and portraits devoted to the most famous filmmakers in Morocco, for the benefit of the Al Jazeera television channel. Screenwriter, producer and film director, in 2004 he signed Dream Boy, which was his first short film. Then followed in 2007, two other short films for the cinema; a fiction: Mia Derial (5 Dirhams) and a documentary: Whispers to a passing by angel. In 2007, he co-directed with Fouad Alaywan a documentary entitled Sanaouat Arrassas (Years of lead), produced by Al Jazeera. It recounts the atrocities experienced by former political detainees in Moroccan jails, through authentic testimonies of the victims of this dark period, some of whom are today journalists and authors of books on the basis of films dedicated to this exceptional experience.. The documentary questions the authors of the books and the filmmakers on the conditions under which they wrote books and made films about the atrocities linked to political imprisonment. In 2010, he directed his third short fiction film Baouabat Assaâda (Porte du bonheur). Fouad Souiba is currently refining the screenplay for his first feature film entitled Gears curiously dedicated to the last thirty years of modern Morocco. In April 2012 he published his first novel "L'Incompris du Hay Mohammadi".

WORKS
- 1996 to 2001: production and hosting Zawaya, the film magazine, TVM, Morocco.
- 1996 to 2002: production and hostinga series of daily chronicles of film festivals in Morocco.
- 2002: production and directing a special Marrakech International Film Festival, 52 min, TVM, Morocco.
- 2004: screenplay and production of Short "Tiflou Al Ahlam" (Dream Boy), fiction, 18 min, 35 mm.
- 2006 to 2008: production and directing a documentaries series for Al Jazeera.
* Mohamed Ismail, 26 mins (screenplay, production and direction).
* Mohamed Abderrahmane Tazi, 26 mins (screenplay and production.)
* Mohamed Asli, 26 mn (screenplay and production.)
* Nabyl Ayouch, 26 mn (screenplay and production)
* Daoud Aoulad Syad, 26 mins. (screenplay and production.)
* Moroccan short filmmakers, 26 mins (screenplay, production and direction.)
* Cinéma Vérité, 52 mn (screenplay and production.)
* Sanaouat Arrassas, 52 mn (screenplay, production and irecting)

- 2007: screenplay and production of CM "Mia Derial" (5 Dirhams), fiction, 17.30 min, 35 mm.
- 2008: screenplay and production of the CM "Hamassat Li Malak Abir" (Whispers to a passing angel), documentary, 26 mn, 35 mm.
- 2010: screenplay and direction of the short film "Baouabat Assaâda" (Porte du bonheur), fiction, 15.04 min, 35 mm.

Source : Union des Réalisateurs Auteurs Marocains - URAM
www.uram.ma/fr/Realisateurs/AR100/nodata.php
www.artmap.ma/fr/adresse/souiba-fouad-r%C3%A9alisateur