Izza Génini (born 1942) is a Moroccan movie producer and director.

[2] After studying literature and foreign languages at the Sorbonne and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, both in Paris, Génini decided to enter cinema.

[3] Martin Scorsese would later remaster this film in his World Cinema Project, with an interview with Génini included on the disk.

[4] In 1987, Génini began the production of a documentary series on traditional Moroccan music called Maroc, corps et âme, or Morocco, Body and Soul, containing fifteen parts.

[6] Génini was a member of the tribute organization dedicated to the memory of Simon Lévy, who made it his mission to preserve Judeo-Moroccan heritage.