Josza Anjembe

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Josza Anjembe (* 1982 in Paris ) is a French film director , documentary filmmaker and journalist .

Life

Anjembe's parents come from Cameroon, the mother worked as a nurse and the father as a roofer. Anjembe grew up with her twin brother in Bondy ; when she was seven years old, the parents separated and Anjembe moved with the mother to Les Lilas ; later moved to Paris, Pantin and Le Pré-Saint-Gervais . In her childhood and youth she played the piano and attended the music conservatory. Anjembe graduated with the Baccalauréat ES; this was followed by a master's degree in journalism and politics at the Université Paris-VIII . During her studies, she did an internship in television.

After completing her studies, she worked for six years for reports on the program Sans aucun doute on TF1 ; later she worked for the channels France 5 and France 2 in the news sector. Starting in 2009, she traveled to Africa several times for the station Africa 24; she also worked for the channel Canal + Afrique. In 2011 she released her first documentary Massage à la camerounaise , in which she treated “breast ironing” in young Cameroonian women, a form of genital mutilation . The film, made in 2010 and edited by Anjembe himself, has been shown at numerous festivals, including the Festival international de documentaires in Biarritz , in August 2011 at the Festival des Films du monde in Montréal and at the Festival de films de femmes in Créteil . Anjembe's second documentary, KRUMP, une histoire du Krump en France , followed in 2012 , in which she dealt with the development of krumping in France. Here she worked with a dance group for four years.

It was more or less by chance that Anjembe came to the feature film and, on the advice of a friend, completed an internship in the field of dramaturgy in 2013 . In 2016 she made her first short film Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux . The film about a young woman who, against the wishes of her Cameroonian father, opts for French citizenship and has her afro look trimmed to fit in the specified photo frame for the passport photo, is based on a personal experience of Anjembe when applying for a passport back. Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux was nominated for a César in the category Best Short Film in 2018 . In 2019, Anjembe's second short film Baltringue , which takes place in prison, was released; she directed and wrote the script.

Filmography

  • 2011: Massage à la camerounaise (documentary film)
  • 2012: KRUMP, une histoire du Krump en France (documentary)
  • 2017: Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux (short film)
  • 2019: Baltringue (short film)

Awards

  • 2016: Palm Springs International ShortFest , HP Bridging the Borders Award for Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux
  • 2017: Jury Prize in the European Competition, Kortfilmfestival Leuven, for Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux
  • 2018: César nomination, Best Short Film, for Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falila Gbadamassi: Josza Anjembe: "J'ai découvert la fiction comme si je découvrais une planète" . francetvinfo.fr, March 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d Claire Diao: Le bleu, blanc, rouge de Josza Anjembe . bondyblog.fr, February 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d Josza Anjembe: un court haut en couleurs . cnc.fr, February 26, 2018.
  4. ↑ Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux - Dossier de presse . PDF, p. 6.
  5. ↑ FFM: Massage à la Camerounaise . montreal157.blogspot.com, August 21, 2011.
  6. ↑ Parrish Stikeleather: Entretien aven Josza Anjembe . In: Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux - Dossier de presse . PDF, p. 5.
  7. ↑ The short film was also released in 2019 as part of the compilation film French Touch: Coming of Age .
personal data
SURNAME Anjembe, Josza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris