African Filmmakers
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Abderrahmane Sissako was born on 13 October 1961 in Kiffa, Mauritania. He is a director and writer, known for Timbuktu (2014), Life on Earth (1998) and Waiting for Happiness (2002).- Writer
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Born in Bamako (Mali). He dreamed of making films ever since he was a boy, but when his country achieved independence in 1960, there was a great need for teachers. So, for ten years, he taught in various village schools. At the same time, he wrote plays including "Pouvoir de Pagne". In 1979, he obtained a place at the National Film Production Center (CNPC) in Mali. He worked as assistant on Nyamanton and Finzan by Cheick Oumar Sissoko. In 1991, he directed his first feature film, Ta dona, was screened, in 1991, at the Festival International du Film de Cannes ("Un certain regard").Taafé Fanga was screened at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in 1997.- Director
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Ahmed Rachedi was born in 1938 in Tebessa, Algeria. He is a director and writer, known for Z (1969), Tabûnat al-sayyid Fabre (1983) and Ali au pays des mirages (1980).- Director
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Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda was born on 30 October 1957 in Kinshasa, Belgian Congo [now Democratic Republic of the Congo]. He is a director and writer, known for Article 15 bis (2000), Nous aussi avons marché sur la lune (2009) and Le damier (2007).- Director
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Cheick Fantamady Camara was born on 12 March 1960 in Conakry, Guinea. He was a director and writer, known for Morbayassa (2014), Konorofili (ou anxiété) (2000) and Be kunko (2004). He died on 7 January 2017 in Paris, France.- Actor
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- Chris Obi Rapu is known for Living in Bondage (1992), Circle of Doom (1993) and Living in Bondage 2 (1993).
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Born the son of a Muslim cleric in Colobane, near Dakar, Senegal, Djibril Diop Mambéty received no formal training in filmmaking. He experimented with theater, but in 1968, he was asked to leave an avant-garde theater group. Shortly thereafter, he made his first film short called Badou Boy (1970), which dealt with the life of a young renegade. By 1973, he directed his first feature, Touki Bouki (1973), about disaffected youth, and it became an instant classic. It would be nearly twenty years before he would create another film, Hyenas (1992), which is considered a sequel to "Touki Bouki" and a parable based on the classic play "The Visit" by Frederich Durrenmatt. Although his films were considered to be politically oriented, Mambéty rejected the realism preferred by most African filmmakers. His films were notable for their dream-like quality that left the themes of his films entirely to the interpretation of the viewer; this was, of course, the desired effect. In spite of the fact that Mambéty only completed a few short films and a meager two full-length features, the quality of his short body of work has rendered him legendary status among African filmmakers and, indeed, the international film community.- Director
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Fanta Régina Nacro was born on 4 September 1962 in Tankodogo, Burkina Faso. She is a director and writer, known for The Night of Truth (2004), A Close-Up on Bintou (2001) and A Certain Morning (1992).- Director
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Flora Gomes was born on 31 December 1949 in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau. He is a director and writer, known for Nha Fala (2002), The Blue Eyes of Yonta (1992) and Mortu Nega (1988).- Director
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Gahité Fofana is known for Un matin bonne heure (2006), I.T. - Immatriculation temporaire (2001) and Mathias, le procès des gangs (1997).- Director
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Kabore started out as a history student at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures d'Histoire d'Ouagadougou and continued his studies in Paris where he received an MA. During his studies he became interested in how Africa was portrayed abroad, which then led him, in 1974, to study cinematography at the Ecole Superieure d'Etudes Cinematographiques. Further inspiration came upon viewing Ousmane Sembene's Xala, which he saw as an example of how film could be used to express African culture. After returning to Africa, Kabore was made director of the Centre National du Cinema and taught at the Institut African d'Education Cinematographique. Along with students under his direction there he made his first film, 'Je Reviens De Bokin' (I Come From Bokin).
Kabore went on to produce practical documentaries such as 1978's, 'Stockez et conservez les grains' (Store and Conserve the Grain), which focused on agrarian concerns. Another kind of documentary he made in this early period, 'Regard sur le VI'eme FESPACO' (A Look at the 6th FESPACO) evidenced his concern for and promotion of African film. Kabore's first feature, Wend Kuuni (1982) was a breakthrough for African cinema notable for the way it translated African oral tradition to the screen. Next, Kabore returned to address the issues surrounding African cinema with a documentary, 'Props sur le cinema' (Reflections on the cinema) (1986). The short film featured two significant African directors, 'Souleymane Cisse' from Mali and Mauritania born Med Hondo discussing the problems facing filmmakers on the continent. He followed this with his second feature, Zan Boko (1988) which tells the story of a wealthy businessman who takes away ancestral land from a poor village peasant in order to build a swimming pool. The film focuses not only on the conflict of class struggle but also that of tradition and modernity in postcolonial civilization.
Before his next feature Kabore again returned with a short documentary, Madame Hado (1991), about Mrs. Hado, a celebrated Burkinabe singer and dancer. Kabore was then invited to contribute to the BBC's 'Developing Stories', a series of six films by talented filmmakers from the developing world focusing on environmental and developmental issues. He offered _Rabi (1993)_, which won the first prize for young people's films at the Okomedia International Ecological Film Festival. Another mark of Kabore's international recognition was his participation in the film, Lumière and Company (1995) in which 40 directors from around the world were asked to make a short film with the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumiere Brothers. His most recent feature Buud Yam (1997) was the 1997 grand-prize winner of the FESPACO.- Actor
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Gavin Hood was born on 12 May 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an actor and director, known for Official Secrets (2019), Tsotsi (2005) and Eye in the Sky (2015). He was previously married to Janine Eser.- Director
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Halie Gerima arrived in the United States from his native Gondar, Ethiopia, to study acting and directing at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Illinois. He later transferred to the Theater Department at UCLA where he completed the Master's Program in Film. Afterward, he relocated to Washington, DC, to teach at Howard University's Department of Radio, Television, and Film where he has influenced young filmmakers for over twenty-five years.
Influenced by UCLA classmate and filmmaker Charles Burnett, and by the celebrated Black poet and educator Sterling Brown, Gerima's films are noted for their exploration of the issues and history pertinent to members of the African diaspora, from the continent itself to the Americas and Western Hemisphere. Often corrective of Hollywood versions of slave stories, his films comment on the physical, cultural, and psychological dislocation of Black peoples during and after slavery. What distinguishes his films are that the narratives are told from the perspectives of Africans and members of the African Diaspora itself, rather than being sanitized and misinterpreted by more commercially oriented filmmakers.
Gerima's unique filmmaking aesthetic is coupled with a personal mission to correct long-held misconceptions about Black peoples' varied histories throughout the world; for this reason, he is considered--by colleagues and students alike--to be a master teacher in the classroom and behind the camera.- Director
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Idrissa Ouedraogo was born on 21 January 1954 in Banfora, Upper Volta [now Burkina Faso]. He was a director and writer, known for Yaaba (1989), The Law (1990) and Samba Traoré (1992). He died on 18 February 2018 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.- Director
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Issa Serge Coelo was born in 1967 in Bil Tine, Chad. He is a director and writer, known for Tartina City (2007), Un taxi pour Aouzou (1994) and Let There Be Peace (2001).- Director
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Jean-Marie Teno, Africa's preeminent documentary filmmaker, has been producing and directing films on the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty years. Films by Jean-Marie Teno have been honored at festivals worldwide: Berlin, Toronto, Yamagata, Cinema du Reel, Visions du Reel, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Liepzig, San Francisco, London. In the U.S., many of his films including Africa, je te plumerai; A Trip to the Country; Clando; Chief!; Alex's Wedding; and The Colonial Misunderstanding, have been broadcast and featured at festivals across the country. Teno has been a guest of the Flaherty Seminar, an artist in residence at the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California, Berkeley, and has lectured at numerous universities. Most recently, he was a visiting artist at Amherst College as a 2007-08 Copeland Fellow.- Director
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Jean-Pierre Bekolo is a noted African film director from Cameroon. He already garnered attention at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut film Quartier Mozart (1992), with a style that is playful, comic, and sardonic became the representative of a new generation that has been working against the restrictive expectations of African cinema, mixing genres and linking pop with politics. He directed Aristotle's Plot (1996), the African entry in the British Film Institute's series of films commemorating the centenary of cinema that has included the participation of artists such as Scorsese, Bertolucci, Frears, Miller, Reitz, and Godard. Part action movie send-up, part parody of Aristotle's rules, part satire on Africa's preoccupation with itself, this first African film selcted at Sundance shows Bekolo to be an "increasingly fearless trickster."His avant-garde political thriller Les Saignantes (2005) that premiered at the Toronto film festival was nominated in two categories at the French Césars in 2009 and is now considered to be the first African sci-fi movie. Les Saignantes won the Silver Stallion and Best Actress Awards at Fespaco (Pan African Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) in 2007. Bekolo has also created in 2008, a video installation called An African Woman in Space that was on display at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, as part of the Diaspora exhibition curated by Claire Denis. Banned in Cameroon in 2013, Jean-Pierre Bekolo's controversial film Le President questions the phenomenon of Africa's "perpetual governments". His new film, a 4 hour documentary Les Choses et Les Mots de Mudimbe is part of the official selection of the 2015 Berlinale. "An unusual film, as fascinating as its object/subject, opulent, sensitive, clever, and radical. Another station of delightful postcolonial, cosmopolitan filmmaking". Alongside his work as a film director, Bekolo is an activist, he writes and publishes, in addition to teaching at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Duke University. Recently he has been dividing his time between the USA, France, and Cameroon, and starting in the summer of 2015 he will be a fellow of the Artists Program at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin.- Producer
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Ghana born John Akomfrah is known for his experimental documentaries and video installations on the subjects of race, migration, and slavery in the encounters between European colonisers and African subjects.In the 1980s working in London, he helped found the Black Audio Film Collective and later set up the Smoking Dogs production company. His cinematic influences include Carl Dreyer and Sergei Eisenstein.- Director
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Katy Ndiaye is known for Waiting for Men (2007), On a le temps pour nous (2019) and Traces, empreintes de femmes (2003).- Director
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Kwaw Ansah was born in 1941 in Agona Swedru, Ghana. Kwaw is a director and producer, known for Heritage Africa (1989), Love Brewed in the African Pot (1980) and The Good Old Days: Suffering to Lose (2012).- Director
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a director and writer, known for Dry Season (2006), A Screaming Man (2010) and Our Father (2002).- Director
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Malika Zouhali-Worrall is a British-Moroccan filmmaker, an Emmy award-winning director and an Emmy-nominated editor. Her directing credits include Call Me Kuchu (Berlin International Film Festival, 2012), Thank You For Playing (Tribeca Film Festival, 2015), and French broadcaster ARTE's Earn A Living (IDFA 2018). Malika's films have been supported by the Sundance Film Institute, San Francisco Film Society, Catapult Film Fund, Tribeca Film Institute, Film Independent, Firelight Media, the Fledgling Fund, and the Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellowship. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine named Malika one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Malika is a 2015 Firelight Lab Fellow, a 2019 Chicken & Egg Awardee, and a 2020 Sundance Institute Momentum Fellow.- Director
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Med Hondo was born on 4 May 1935 in Aïn-Béni-Mathar, Morocco. He was an actor and director, known for Sarraounia (1986), Oh, Sun (1970) and Arabs and Niggers, Your Neighbours (1974). He died on 2 March 2019 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Mohamed Bouamari was born in 1941 in Sétif, Constantine, France [now Algeria]. He was an actor and director, known for First Step (1980), El faham (1973) and L'héritage (1975). He died on 1 December 2006 in Algiers, Algeria.- Director
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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina was born on 26 February 1934 in M'sila, Algeria. He is a director and writer, known for Rih al awras (1966), Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975) and Sandstorm (1982).- Director
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Moussa Sene Absa was born in 1958 in Dakar, Senegal. He is a director and writer, known for L'extraordinaire destin de Madame Brouette (2002), Xalé (2022) and Tableau ferraille (1997).- Director
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Born in 1958 in Sénégal, Moussa Touré starts working early for the cinema. Debuting as a technician he soon turns to direction, with a first short in 1987 and a first feature in 1991, the multi-awarded Toubab Bi (1991). As of 1987 he creates his own production firm "Les Films du Crocodile" through which he funds several documentaries. His next fiction film TGV (1998) is the talented account of the eventful journey of a rickety bus between Dakar and Conakry. In 2002 Touré sets up the "Moussa invite" Film Festival in Rufisque, Sénégal, a showcase for African documentaries made by Africans. His most recent achievement is The Pirogue (2012), a striking semi-documentary movie, brilliantly filmed and edited with the efficiency of a Hollywood blockbuster.- Director
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Born in Eastern Nigeria in 1966, Newton's family relocated to Lagos in 1970 at the end of the Biafran War. In 1985 he left for England to study Engineering but discovered Cinema and attended the London International Film School, graduating in 1990. In 1997 he established Granite Film Works. In 2001 Newton's debut feature film Rage, became the first wholly independently financed film by a black filmmaker in the history of British cinema to be released nationwide. It opened to critical acclaim.
Between 2005 and 2007 he co-wrote, directed and executive produced Ezra, his first non-independently funded film, for Arte France.
In 2001-2002 he was Filmmaker in Residence at Festival de Cannes' Cinéfondation in Paris.
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Ola Balogun was born in 1945 in Aba, Nigeria. He is a director and writer, known for A Deusa Negra (1979), Ija Ominira (1979) and Cry Freedom! (1981).- Writer
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The first film director from an African country to achieve international recognition, Ousmane Sembene remains the major figure in the rise of an independent post-colonial African cinema. Sembene's roots were not, as might be expected, in the educated élite. After working as a mechanic and bricklayer, he joined the Free French forces in 1942, serving in Africa and France. In 1946, he returned to Dakar, where he participated in the great railway strike of 1947. The next year he returned to France, where he worked in a Citröen factory in Paris, and then, for ten years, on the dock in Marseilles. During this time Sembene became very active in trade union struggles and began an extraordinarily successful writing career. His first novel, "Le Docker Noir", was published in 1956 to critical acclaim. Since then, he has produced a number of works which have placed him in the foreground of the international literary scene. Long an avid filmgoer, Sembene became aware that to reach a mass audience of workers and preliterate Africans outside urban centers, cinema was a more effective vehicle than the written word. In 1961, he traveled to Moscow to study film at VGIK and then to work at the Gorky Studios. Upon his return to Senegal, Sembene turned his attention to filmmaking and, after two short films, he wrote and directed his first feature, Black Girl (1966)(english title: Black Girl). Received with great enthusiasm at a number of international film festivals, it also won the prestigious Jean Vigo Prize for its director. Shot in a simple, quasi-documentary style probably influenced by the French New Wave, BLACK GIRL tells the tragic story of a young Senegalese woman working as a maid for an affluent French family on the Riviera, focusing on her sense of isolation and growing despair. Her country may have been "decolonized," but she is still a colonial -- a non-person in the colonizers' world. Sembene's next film, Mandabi (1968) (english title: The Money Order), marked a sharp departure. Based on his novel of the same name and shot in color in two language versions--French and Wolof, the main dialect of Senegal--THE MONEY ORDER is a trenchant and often delightfully witty satire of the new bourgeoisie, torn between outmoded patriarchal traditions and an uncaring, rapacious and inefficient bureaucracy. Emitai (1971) records the struggle of the Diola people of the Casamance region of Senegal (where Sembene grew up) against the French authorities during WWII. Shot in Diola dialect and French from an original script, EMITAI offers a respectful but unromanticized depiction of an ancient tribal culture, while highlighting the role of women in the struggle against colonialist oppression. In Xala (1975), Sembene again takes on the native bourgeoisie, this time in the person of a rich, partially Westernized Moslem businessman afflicted by "xala" (impotence) on the night of his wedding to a much younger third wife. Outsiders (1977), considered by many to be Sembene's masterpiece, departs from the director's customary realist approach, documenting the struggle over the last centuries of an unspecified African society against the incursions of Islam and European colonialism. Featuring a strong female central character, CEDDO is a powerful evocation of the African experience.- Director
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Paulin Vieyra was born on 31 January 1925 in Porto Novo, Dahomey. He was a director and actor, known for En résidence surveillée (1981), Une Nation est née (1961) and Xala (1975). He was married to Myriam Warner-Vieyra. He died on 4 November 1987 in Paris, France.- Producer
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Ramadan Suleman was born in 1955 in Durban, South Africa. He is a producer and director, known for Fools (1997), Lettre d'amour zoulou (2004) and Zwelidumile (2010).- Director
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S. Pierre Yameogo was born on 15 May 1955 in Burkina Faso. He was a director and writer, known for Silmandé - Tourbillon (1998), Delwende (2005) and Moi et mon blanc (2003). He died on 1 April 2019 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.- Director
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Safi Faye was born on 22 November 1943 in Dakar, Senegal. She was a director and writer, known for Mossane (1996), Fad'jal (1979) and Letter from My Village (1976). She died on 22 February 2023 in Paris, France.- Director
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Salah Abouseif was born on 10 May 1915 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a director and writer, known for El Fetewa (1957), The Monster (1954) and Mughamarat Antar wa Abla (1948). He died on 23 June 1996 in Cairo, Egypt.- Director
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Souleymane Cissé was born on 21 April 1940 in Bamako, Mali. He is a director and writer, known for Yeelen (1987), Baara (1978) and The Wind (1982).- Director
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Tunde Kelani holds a Diploma in the Art and Technique of Filmmaking from the London International Film School, London. After many years in the Nigerian Film Industry as a Cinematographer, he now manages Mainframe Film & Television Productions, an outfit formed to document Nigeria's rich culture.
Tunde Kelani has worked on most feature films produced in the country in his capacity as a Cinematographer. Some of 16mm feature films include: Anikura; Ogun Ajaye; Iya Ni Wura; Taxi Driver; Iwa and Fopomoyo. In the area of video productions, he has to his credit award-winning feature videos: Ti Oluwa Nile; Ayo Ni Mo Fe; Koseegbe and Oleku.
An advocate of 'Alternative Technology' in motion picture production in Africa, Tunde Kelani has successfully produced and directed two digital features,Saworoide, Thunderbolt. He also completed work one of his latest digital films 'Agogo-eewo' shot on widescreen digitally on Dvcam. In addition to the M-net short features films, 'Twins of the Rainforest','A Place Called Home' and 'Barber's Wisdom' (35MM) , he also photographed, produced and directed a short feature in 16mm 'The White Handkerchief' in the same series. He has since added The Campus Queen' Abeni and The Narrow Path, the first set of works to probe further the possibilities of advanced digital filmmaking.
He recently added a new film Arugba which has just concluded free, open-air community screenings in 57 local government and development council areas of Lagos State in Nigeria. Tunde Kelani uses the Mobile Cinema Project, designed to take information and entertainment to the grassroot.
Tunde Kelani's latest film is Maami that tells the story of a single parent, Maami, and her young son who are desperately poor.- Director
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Wanjiru Kinyanjui was born in 1958 in Nairobi, Kenya. Wanjiru is a director and writer, known for Der Kampf um den heiligen Baum (1995), Die Rechte der Kinder (1997) and Africa Is a Woman's Name (2010).- Sound Department
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Zézé Gamboa was born in 1955 in Luanda, Angola. He is a director and producer, known for O Herói (2004), O Grande Kilapy (2012) and Terra Estrangeira (1995).- Director
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Zola Maseko is known for Drum (2004), The Foreigner (1997) and The Life and Times of Sara Baartman (1998).- Writer
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Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in 1959 in Mutoko, Zimbabwe. She is a writer and director, known for I Want a Wedding Dress (2011), Pamvura (2005) and Everyone's Child (1996).- Writer
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Yamina Benguigui was born on 9 April 1957 in Lille, France. She is a writer and director, known for Inch'Allah dimanche (2001), Mémoires d'immigrés, l'héritage maghrébin (1997) and 9/3, mémoire d'un territoire (2008).- Director
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Cheikh Djemai is known for La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte (2018), Frantz Fanon, une vie, un combat, une oeuvre (2001) and La nuit du doute (1989).- Actress
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Mati Diop was born on 22 June 1982 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Atlantics (2019), Dahomey (2024) and A Thousand Suns (2013).- Director
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Sarah Maldoror is the author of some forty films making up a multiple and rebellious work, made of fiction, documentary and poetry, and interpreted by a war song: the short film Monangambée, shot in 1969 in Algiers where she was then living, which evokes the torture by the Portuguese colonial army of a sympathizer of the struggle for the liberation of Angola, visited in prison by his company.
Before becoming a pioneer of pan-African cinema, Sarah Maldoror lived part of her youth in Paris where, passionate about theater and received at the school in rue Blanche (according to her friend, the future Ivorian filmmaker Timité Bassori, they are among the first black students to enter), she co-founded in 1956 with the same Bassori, Toto Bissainthe, Ababacar Samb Makharam and Robert Liensol the company Les Griots, which became the first black theater company in France. The Tragedy of King Christophe by Aimé Césaire and Les Nègres by Jean Genet (directed by Roger Blin) are among the plays created by the troupe, which Maldoror presides for a time, with the material help and intellectual support of Alioune Diop, founder in 1947 of the important Parisian anti-colonialist review Présence africaine.
In 1961, Sarah Maldoror left France and went to study at the VGIK, the Moscow film school, before joining the African decolonization movements (in Algeria, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau) with her companion Mario Pinto de Andrade, whom he met in Paris and co-founder of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola, in exile during the war of independence (1961-1975) against the Portuguese metropolis.
It was in Algiers, where she settled in 1966, that she made her debut on the cinematographic front of the anti-colonial struggles: assistant on the Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966) and Pan-African Festival of Algiers 1969, documentary by William Klein, she quickly made her first film, followed by a lost film shot in Guinea-Bissau and a first "fiction" feature film, Sambizanga (1972). Filmed in the Republic of Congo, based on an Angolan novel by José Luandino Vieira, adapted by his companion Pinto de Andrade with the French writer Maurice Pons, Sambizanga takes place in 1961 and describes the repression of the Angolan Liberation Movement from point of view of Maria, wife of a revolutionary activist imprisoned and tortured by the Portuguese army, who sets out to find him across the country. Shot with real actors from the struggle then in progress, and one of the first African films directed by a woman in the history of cinema, Sambizanga remains seen and visible today - it is easily found on the Internet.
Leaving Algeria following a disagreement with the hierarchy of the FLN in power (some sources mention that she was imprisoned and then expelled from the country), Sarah Maldoror settled in France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis ), and continues to make films. His work includes documentaries (shot in Seine-Saint-Denis, Martinique, Guyana or Cape Verde for Fogo, the island of fire in 1978) and numerous portraits of artists and writers (the poets Léon Gontran-Damas, Aimé Césaire, Assia Djebar, René Depestre or Louis Aragon, singer Toto Bissainthe, musician Archie Shepp). Visible on the site of the CNRS video library, a 1974 short film, And the Dogs Are Silenced, shot in the reserves of the Musée de l'homme dedicated to objects from black Africa, adapted from extracts from the play of the same name by Aimé Césaire, with the actor Gabriel Glissant (seen in Soleil O du grand Med Hondo) and the filmmaker herself in the role of the revolutionary's mother, dressed in an ironic white scientific coat. But if there is a science of revolt, Sarah Madoror will have written, shot, played and some of the greatest pages. We hear more than twice, everywhere behind the scenes of the Musée de l'Homme, the sound of fire.
She died in April 2020 as a result of Covid-19. In November 2021, "Sarah Maldoror, Cinéma Tricontinental" presented by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, is a retrospective of her work, her life and her political commitment. The exhibition extends to the Musée de l'Homme, the Museum of the History of Immigration and the Museum of Art and History Paul Éluard in Saint-Denis.- Dom Pedro I, was the first emperor of Brazil. The son of Dom João VI of Portugal, he became known for proclaiming the independence of Brazil in 1822, establishing himself as the leader of the new country. Pedro I reigned until 1831 when he abdicated in favor of his son, Dom Pedro II.
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Abdoulaye Ascofare was born on 20 April 1949 in Gao, Mali. He is a director and actor, known for Mother of the Dunes (1997), Zabou, mannequin des sables (2003) and Wamba (1976).- Writer
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John Kani was born on 30 November 1942 in New Brighton, South Africa. He is a writer and actor, known for Black Panther (2018), Captain America: Civil War (2016) and The Ghost and the Darkness (1996).- Director
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Dani Kouyaté was born on 4 June 1961 in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. He is a director and writer, known for Sia, the Dream of the Python (2001), Keïta! L'héritage du griot (1995) and Bilakoro (1989).- Director
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Peres Owino is known for African Queens: Njinga (2023), Bound: Africans versus African Americans (2014) and Seasons of Love (2014). She was previously married to Michael Murphy.- Writer
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Nuotama Bodomo was born on 9 February 1988 in Accra, Ghana. She is a writer and director, known for Collective: Unconscious (2016), Boneshaker (2013) and Afronauts (2014).- Director
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Jim Chuchu is a Kenyan director, visual artist and musician known for his quirky, DIY aesthetic, unconventional music video work, Afrofuturist visual arts and alternative music projects. Jim Chuchu directed Stories of Our Lives - a Kenyan queer anthology film, which was banned in his home country for dealing with the topic of homosexuality.- Producer
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Rehad Desai is known for Miners Shot Down (2014), How to Steal a Country (2019) and Everything Must Fall (2019).- Director
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Biyi Bandele was born on 13 October 1967 in Kafanchan, Nigeria. He was a director and writer, known for Half of a Yellow Sun (2013), Fifty (2015) and Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman (2022). He died on 7 August 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria.