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Mr. Tarak Ben Ammar was born on June 12, 1949 in Tunis. He is a
cultural entrepreneur, working in audiovisual media both in Europe
and worldwide.
He began his career in 1974 by convincing a number of American
producers to produce parts of their movies in Tunisia. He participated
in the production of a number of international films, including the
blockbusters
Star Wars
(George Lucas) and
Raiders of the Lost Ark
(Steven Spielberg). He has produced or co-produced more than 70
movies, including the prestigious
La Traviata
(Franco Zeffirelli),
Pirates
(Roman Polanski),
The Passion of Christ
(Mel Gibson) and
L’Or Noir
(Jean-Jacques Annaud).
Concomitantly, he developed a group presence in several countries,
including France, Italy, North Africa and the United States:
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in France, through his company Quinta Communications,
he participated with the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
in the recovery and development of a leading post-production
group, based on the restructuring of Les Laboratoires Eclair,
an emblematic company in the French film industry. He also
partnered with Luc Besson to develop the Cité du Cinéma project;
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in Italy, his subsidiary Prima TV has rapidly established its position
as the fourth largest multimedia group, behind Mediaset, RAI and
Sky, primarily through Société Eagle, the largest independent
distributor in the country. In 2013, the telecommunications group
Nabil Sawiris purchased a stake in Prima;
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in North Africa, he founded and developed the TV channel
Nessma, which has become the leading channel in Tunisia,
Algeria, and Libya and the second biggest channel in Morocco.
Through its democratic positioning and independence, this
channel played a central role in the Arab Spring. He is also a
shareholder in the Egyptian TV channel ONTV; and
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in the United States, with the Weinstein brothers and Goldman
Sachs, he co-founded the independent studio “The Weinstein
Company”, which has produced, among other films,
The King’s
Speech
and
The Artist.
Mr. Tarak Ben Ammar is a corporate Director of several companies,
including The Weinstein Company in the United States and
Mediobanca in Italy where he serves as an independent corporate
Director.
He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. with a
degree in international economics.
Tarak Ben Ammar
Tunisian citizen
Business Address
Quinta Communications - 32-34, rue Poussin - 75016 Paris - France
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