Much Loved (also known as Zin Li Fik) is a 2015 French-Moroccan drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch about the prostitution scene in Marrakesh.
 It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
 The film has been banned in Morocco for its "contempt for moral values and the Moroccan woman".
 It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
Whatever Lola Wants is a 2007 French-Canadian romantic drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch.
 The film had its world premiere on December 11, 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival and stars Laura Ramsey as an American postal worker who travels to Egypt to seek out a legendary belly dancer.
Assaad Bouab (born 1980, Aurillac, France) is a French-Moroccan actor whose first co-starring role is "Whatever Lola Wants", directed by Nabil Ayouch and co-starring Laura Ramsey as Lola.
 The film premiered 11 December 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival.
 Bouab attended Cours Florent from 1999 to 2002, and graduated from CNSAD in Paris in 2006.
John McKay is a Scottish film and television director.
 His initial career was as a playwright, before he began his film career by directing the short films "Doom and Gloom" (1996) and "Wet and Dry" (1997).
Horses of God (French: Les chevaux de Dieu , Arabic: يا خيل الله‎ ‎ , translit.
  Ya khayl Allah) is 2012 Moroccan drama film about the 2003 Casablanca bombings.
 It was directed by Nabil Ayouch, and based on the novel "The Stars of Sidi Moumen" by Moroccan writer Mahi Binebine.
 The film won several awards, and was Morocco's submission for the 85th Academy Awards (held in February 2013).
Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a French-Moroccan television and film director, producer and writer of Moroccan origin.
Razzia is a 2017 Moroccan drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch.
 It was selected as the Moroccan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
 "Razzia" is mostly set in Casablanca and characters frequently discuss the 1942 film "Casablanca".
John McKay (born 16 June 1939, Kent) is a dual British/Canadian citizen, a mathematician at Concordia University, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, for the McKay (McKay-Alperin) conjecture in representation theory, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain finite groups to Lie groups.
Mektoub is a 1997 French-Moroccan drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch.
 The film was selected as the Moroccan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Peter John McKay (born 12 October 1994 in Burton-upon-Trent) is an English cricketer who plays for Warwickshire.
 He is a left-handed batsman who also plays as a wicket-keeper.
 McKay made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Oxford MCCU in April 2013.

Question: Was Nabil Ayouch initially a playwright like John McKay?
Answer: no