Yanis Gaye is a French-Senegalese producer and cultural programmer. He is one of the co-founders and editorial and artistic director of Gorée Island Cinema, ensuring the development of many projects related to cinema (creative workshops, film production, cultural events…). He is also the director of the Goree Cinema Festival, created in 2015. In addition, in …
Senegalese artist Saliou Sarr is a bee full of action that draws from multiple universes, from theater to cinema through music. Author, composer and director, his work contributes to the universality of language, culture and representations. He cherishes traditions, while keeping an eye on the future. With him, we transcend unimaginable borders, grasping the full …
Adnane Baraka is a Moroccan independent filmmaker born in Marrakech. After studying at ESAV film school in Marrakech/Morocco, he graduated in directing in 2011. In 2010, he directed his first short documentary Talbanine about a remote and isolated school in the mountains. In 2019, he finished his first feature-length documentary APEX-Wandering stars, about three blind …
Guillermo Quintero is a documentary filmmaker, Latin American film programmer and former video reporter. For more than 3 years he covered news in France and Europe. For 10 years, he has been a member of the association Le Chien qui Aboie which promotes Colombian and Latin American cinema in France. He began his career as …
Shanelle Jewnarain studied video production at the Durban University of Technology and participated in numerous training initiatives including the Sediba Spark Screenwriting workshop and Produire au Sud scriptwriting workshop at Talent Campus Durban 2012. She took first and second place in the Durban Short Film Challenge at the Durban International Film Festival, and won first …
Régis Sauder was born in 1970 in the East of France. After studying neurosciences and initiating a career in scientific publications, he turned to documentary filmmaking and directed his first feature film, Children of the Princess of Cleves in 2011. Régis Sauder also works with theaters and museums for the creation of art installations.
Thomas Lacoste was born in 1972. Between 1999 and 2005, he created and directed the transdisciplinary festival of contemporary creations Rencontres Internationales de l’Ordinaire (RIO) in Bordeaux.In 2006, before the presidential campaign of 2007, he launched and animated L’Autre campagne, which led to a book of the same name.In 2007, he directed the documentaries Réfutations, …
Mathieu Amalric directed the films Mange ta soupe, Le Stade de Wimbledon (2001), La Chose publique (2003), On Tour (2010), L’Illusion comique (2010), Sfar (dessins) (2010), The Blue Room(2014), Barbara (2017), Maîtres anciens (2021) et Hold Me Tight (2021).
HÀ Lệ Diễm was born in 1991 in Tay ethnic minority group living in the mountains of Northeast Vietnam. She left her hometown to study journalism at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi, from where she graduated in 2013. Children of the Mist is her first feature documentary film project. She is …
Curated by Hicham Falah, general delegate of the Agadir FIDADOC and its “Documentary Beehive”, five case studies from five different geographic regions offer insights into the diverse conditions in which documentary film is created and produced on the African continent. Alongside questions of funding, we also address the issues of representation and the films’ artistic …
Hinde Boujemaa is a Belgian-Tunisian director and screenwriter. Author in 2012 of her first feature documentary C’était mieux demain (official selection at the Venice Film Festival), she moved to fiction in 2014 with …et Roméo a épousé Juliette, several times awarded. In 2019, she directed Noura rêve (official selection at the Toronto film festival and …
Mohamed Saïd Ouma is a filmmaker, former director of festivals in Reunion and Comoros, trainer and lecturer on Indian Ocean cinema, representative of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles in the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI). He has just been appointed head of DOC-A (Documentary Africa Fund), a pan-African initiative to strengthen the documentary film network …