Cheick Fantamady Camara

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Cheick Fantamady Camara (born March 12, 1960 in Conakry , Guinea , † January 7, 2017 in Paris , France ) was a Guinean film director and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Cheick Fantamady Camara attended school in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, before he went to France in 1997 to learn screenwriting at the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) . This was followed in 1998 by further training as a film director at the École Louis Lumière , then still in Noisy-le-Grand , Département Seine-Saint-Denis , today in Saint-Denis itself.

In the following years, Camara worked as an assistant director for films by various African directors. In 2000 he made his first short film which was awarded the jury's prize at the 2001 FESPACO African film festival (Festival pananfricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou ) . His next short films dealt with the violence within Guinean society faced with thousands of civil war refugees from neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone .

Camara's first feature film Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry (It will rain over Conakry) from 2006 tells the story of a young cartoonist from an opposition newspaper and his relationship with his father, the imam of the Great Mosque of Conakry. The film won several awards and received the audience award at the Fespaco Festival in 2007. In the same year, a documentary about the Senegalese cineast Djibril Diop Mambety followed .

In 2010 Camara began shooting his second feature film, Mörbayassa, which was completed in 2014. Fatoumata Diawara was involved in one of the main roles.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2000: Konorofili (short film, 16 min.)
  • 2002: Little John (short film, 26 min.)
  • 2004: Bè Kunko (short film, 26 min.)
  • 2007: Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry
  • 2007: Mambéty forever (documentary)
  • 2014: Mörbayassa - Le serment de Koumba

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renaud de Rochebrune: Décès: le cinéaste guinéen Cheick Fantamady Camara ne tournera plus. In: jeuneafrique.com. January 12, 2017, accessed May 4, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Camara, Cheick Fantamady
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guinean film director and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Conakry , Guinea
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2017
Place of death Paris , France