Sani Magori

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Sani Elhadj Magori (born July 27, 1971 in Galmi ) is a Nigerien film director .

Life

Sani Magori passed his school leaving examination in 1994 . He then studied agricultural sciences in Algeria on a scholarship . He specialized in date palms . After completing his studies, he returned to Niger, where he could not find a job that matched his education. He then began to work as a journalist for the women's magazine Amina and other French and Nigerien magazines. Sani Magori was interested in being able to design his reports as films. He met the documentary film director Malam Saguirou know, who advised him. Magori then completed a master's degree in documentary film directing at the Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis in Senegal in 2008 .

His first documentary, Notre pain capital (2008), shot on Wolof, deals with the food situation in Saint-Louis and, among other things, earned him an invitation to the international competition of the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand . In Pour le meilleur et pour l'oignon! (2008) reports Magori about the onion variety Violet de Galmi , for which his home village is known nationwide. His film Koukan Kourcia (2010) is dedicated to the topic of migration and was awarded as best documentary at FESPACO 2010. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Magori teaches at the Institut de formation aux techniques de l'information et de la communication du Niger . In 2018 he was appointed director of the national Center national de la Cinématographie du Niger (CNCN).

Filmography

  • 2008: Notre pain capital
  • 2008: Pour le meilleur et pour l'oignon!
  • 2010: Koukan Kourcia
  • 2013: Koukan Kourcia 2: Les Médiatrices

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aissa Abdoulaye Alfary: Le cinéaste El hadj Sani Magori: Une étoile montante. In: Niger Diaspora. May 24, 2009, accessed October 14, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c Harouna Gorel: Sani Magori, nouveau visage du film documentaire. In: Afriquinfos. April 11, 2012, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  3. ↑ a b biography of Sani Elhadj Magori. In: Africultures. Retrieved November 1, 2015 (French).
  4. ↑ Elhadji Magori Sani nommé directeur du Center national de la Cinématographie du Niger (CNCN). In: Niger Diaspora. January 21, 2018, archived from the original on January 28, 2018 ; accessed on January 27, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Magori, sani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magori, Sani Elhadj (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Galmi