Ahmed Boulane was born in Salé, Morocco, and despite being expelled from school three times, he continued to learn and eventually became fluent in four languages. He began his career in the arts as an actor with the Moroccan National Theater Company and the national Moroccan radio theater troupe from 1974 to 1977.
Boulane's first job in cinema was with Nabyl Lahlou in the 1970s, where he played the role of a young, unemployed man in the Moroccan film "Al-Kanfoudi". However, he found it difficult to leave the set once he had finished acting and went on to try his hand at other roles, including boom operator, grip, and floor assistant.
Despite these early experiences, Boulane's passion for cinema only grew stronger, leading him to pursue a career in film and television as an actor, location manager, assistant director, casting director, and screenwriter/director/producer. Over the past 40 years, he has worked on more than 50 feature films and documentaries, as well as over 100 commercials, both nationally and internationally.
Some of the notable directors he has worked with include Giuliano Montaldo, Alan Pakula, Carlo Di Palma, Phillipe de Broca, Jean Delannoy, Nicholas Roeg, and William Friedkin. In the mid-1990s, Boulane decided to add an Irish nationality and establish his own production company, Boulane-O'Bryne Production (BO'B Prod),which has produced several of his own projects, including "Voyage dans le Passé" and "Ali, Rabiaa et les autres".
Boulane's film "Les anges de Satan" was released in 2007 and tells the true story of the arrest of 14 young Moroccan hard rock musicians falsely accused of adhering to Satanism. His feature film "Le retour du fils" was selected as "Coup de coeur" in the 12th Marrakech International Film Festival in 2012, while his latest film "La Isla" won the best comedy award in a festival in Cordoba, Colombia.
In 2019, Boulane published his autobiography, "Ma vie est belle", which was translated into English as "What a Beautiful Life".
