Morocco
Born in 1961, in Bejjaad in central Morocco, Hakim Belabbes graduated in American and African Literature and in Film and Video. From 1994 to 1996, he headed the Audiovisual Department at the Hassan II Foundation in Rabat. For the past few years, he has been working as a freelance director of TV ads, as a film director and as an film teacher at Columbia College in Chicago.
http://www.hakfilms.com/