The Congolese cites the crime film, 'Carlito's Way,' starring Al Paciono, as a project he wished he had made. You can see the inspiration in "Viva Riva," his breakout film.
5 Questions for a Filmmaker
Interviews by Katarina Hedren.
The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.
Essuman believes that confining any storyteller to labels like "African stories" is a disservice to the story and the one telling it.
The Nairobi-based filmmaker and musician aims to bring stories, pictures and sound together to create something immutable on the screen.
For Aduaka, cinema is important if it illuminates or resonates something that makes up the essence of this thing called human nature.
Okpako wants to show people as they see themselves but in a way that others can recognize themselves as well.
The Ivorian filmmaker wished he had made Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, based on the filmmaker’s own dreams, when the fantastical infiltrates the real.
Ruhorahoza wished he made "Sans Soleil" by Chris Marker: "The film is a good example of the work of a filmmaker who has reached maturity and an artist who is truly free."
Teddy Goitom is a Swedish-Ethiopian/Eritrean content producer and the founder of Stocktown (1998), “a cultural movement celebrating
Legendary documentarian Jihan El-Tahri started her career as a journalist, working as a news agency correspondent
Born in Bonn in 1985, Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann is a Kenyan and German photographer and filmmaker. She is intrigued
In 1995 filmmaker and griot Dani Kouyaté won the Golden Stallion – The award for Best
The filmmaker considers himself to be a filmmaker who happens to be African: He is driven by the art of storytelling; so his context is African but his film language is global.
Moussa Sene Absa is a Senegalese filmmaker, artist and songwriter. What is your first film memory?
As a filmmaker, Matsetela wants to be an alternative voice, in a topography that’s filled with stories by others, like Django Unchained, defining black people.
Taghreed Elsanhouri directed the first Sudanese film to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival,
Award-winning South African/Nigerian filmmaker Akin Omotoso is the director of the feature films “Man on Ground”