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French-Algerian filmmaker and producer Rachid Bouchareb, who is being honoured with a career achievement award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, talked extensively about his career at a special ?in conversation? event. Born to Algerian parents who moved to Paris just after the Second World War, twice Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb recounted how he was originally destined to work in manufacturing like his father. ?I was sitting at work one day when I decided to call the offices of a local broadcaster. I got through to a receptionist who I asked ?how do people get into cinema?. She had more important things to do than talk to me but she gave me some names of schools nonetheless,?...