Variety’s International Achievement in Film Honoree Tarak Ben Ammar Soars With Italy’s Eagle Pictures Pacts and Local Hits Like ‘Boy With Pink Trousers’

Tarak Ben Ammar’s long-standing film industry ties are rooted in Italy, where his Eagle Pictures is currently the top independent film distributor and a growing production force.

The Franco-Tunisian film and TV entrepreneur spent part of his teens in Rome during the 1960s when his father was the Tunisian ambassador to Italy. “It was thanks to those years that I fell in love with cinema,” he says, reminiscing about the Eternal City’s Cinema Archimede theater.

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