Amina Abdoulaye Mamani is a director and producer. Her passion for cinema led her to train at the African Documentary Film Forum in Niamey in 2008. Hawan idi, her graduation documentary film wins the Film Schools Best Documentary Award at Fespaco 2013.In 2018, after a long research work, she signs Sur les traces de Mamani …
Inadelso Cossa is a Mozambican film director, cinematographer, producer, and the founder of 16mmFILMES, an independent film and television company based in Mozambique. His work explores different phases of Africa’s, particularly Mozambique’s, history from a personal perspective. Investigating the Colonial, Post Colonial, Independence, and Post Civil War periods, Cossa finds it his duty to document …
Born in Luanda (Angola) in 1985, Paula Agostinho graduated in Performing Arts in 2007, in Lisbon (Portugal), while taking piano and singing lessons. Back in Luanda in 2013, she became a producer at Geração 80, producing commercials, music videos and institutional videos.
Kamy Lara was born in 1980 in Angola. In 2007, she started working for independent productions. She was camera assistant on the film A Espada e a Rosa (2010), by João Nicolau, as well as for the French series Maison close, by Mabrouk El Mechri. In 2010, she returned to Angola and joined the team …
Hassen Ferhani was born in Algiers in 1986. From 2003 to 2008, he co-hosts a film club in Algiers. In 2006, he directed his first film, a short fiction film, Les Baies d’Alger, selected in official competition by several international festivals. In 2008, he participated in the summer training of the Fémis and directed a …
Enver Samuel is an award-winning filmmaker involved in television production since 1994. He has a passion for telling the stories of unsung heroes and heroines of the South African struggle against apartheid.
Akuol de Mabior is born in Nairobi, Kenya. She is the daughter of the late John Garang de Mabior (leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the first Vice President of Sudan) and Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior, a South Sudanese politician, fighter for peace in a war torn country and an advocate for women’s …
Maia Lekow is a Kenyan filmmaker and musician. She has worked as director, producer, and sound recordist for several film and music projects since founding Circle and Square Productions in 2009. She has performed on stages across the world and continues to compose music for films. She received an African Movie Academy Award for her …
Chris King is an filmmaker based in Nairobi, Kenya. Born in Australia, Chris studied at The School of Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne before relocating to Kenya in 2007, where he has worked as a cinematographer, editor, animator, director, and producer of shorts, features, and music videos. In 2009, Chris co-founded Circle and …
Tamara Dawit is a producer/director based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she runs a production company Gobez Media that produces Ethiopian film, TV, digital and music content. She directed the short film Grandma Knows Best? (2014)
Dalila Ennadre is a Moroccan director renowned for her documentaries on Moroccan daily life. Morocco constitutes its privileged ground. She mainly films women there, among others in El Batalett, women of the Medina (2000) and Je voudrais vous raconter (2005). She directed around ten documentaries between 1987 and 2019. Dalila Ennadre died on May 14, …
Ousmane Samassekou is a Malian director and producer. Director of the film Les Héritiers de la colline, in 2015, he studied at the Master 2 of documentary filmmaking at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis in Senegal in 2016-2017.