found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 26, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Boughedir, Férid; film critic, motion picture producer/director; born 11 March 1944 in Tunis, Tunisia; studied French literature in Rouen and Paris; wrote two doctoral theses on African and Arabic cinema; was a film critic at journal Jeune Afrique, published in Paris and distributed in francophone Africa; was an artistic director and assistant festival director for the oldest pan-African film festival, Les Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, Tunis; directed films inTunisia; his first feature film, AsfourStah (in French, Halfaouine: L'enfant des terrasses, in English, “Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces”) won numerous international awards (1990); his second feature film was SaïfHalk el Wad (in French, Un été à la Goulette, in English, “A Summer in la Goulette”) (1996))
