Tarak Ben Ammar Thanks George Lucas, Roberto Rossellini While Being Honored at Variety’s Welcome to Cannes

Tarak Ben Ammar, the legendary producer and distributor, said his life may have turned out very differently if a Variety reporter named Hank Werba hadn’t written about his efforts to convince filmmakers to make their movies in Tunisia. It was that decades-old article, in which Ben Ammar pitched the North African nation as “peaceful” and […]