Yamina Benguigui

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Yamina Benguigui (2009)

Yamina Benguigui (* 9. April 1955 in Lille , Nord ), born Yamina Zora Belaïdi, is a French film director , screenwriter and film producer , mainly through the 2010 with the Civis - Europe's Media Prize for Integration excellent television series Aïcha was known. Since 16 May 2012, the non-party , however, for political left counting Benguigui Minister Delegate for French outside France and Francophonie in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault .

Life

Origin, director and screenwriter

Yasmina Benguigui, who comes from an Algerian immigrant family, studied at the University of Lyon II after attending school and then worked as an assistant director with the director Jean-Daniel Pollet .

Together with the director Rachid Bouchareb , who also comes from an Algerian immigrant family , she founded the film production company Raya Films at the beginning of the 1990s and together with it she produced the Rencontres series for the television channel France 3 between 1990 and 1991 , which deals with the cultural and social situation of immigrants in France dealt. She then produced numerous documentaries for the TV channel France 2 such as Femmes d'Islam (1994) and La Maison de Kate, un lieu d'espoir (1995).

Based on the documentary Mémoires d'immigrés, l'héritage maghrébin (1997) on the situation of immigrants from the Maghreb and the short film Pimprenelle from the television series Pas d'histoires! (2001) she made the 2004 film Inschallah - Finally Sunday , in which the well-known actor Mohamed Fellag played a supporting role. Other short films made under her direction were Le plafond de verre (2004), Les défricheurs (2006) and 9/3, mémoire d'un territoire (2008). She also wrote the script for some of her films.

She achieved great fame through the television series Aïcha , produced for France 2 , which was created between 2009 and 2012, and for which she and Dominique Lancelot were awarded the Civis - Europe's media prize for integration in entertainment in 2010.

Vice-Mayor of Paris and Minister Associate

The non-party, but one of the divers gauche Benguigui supported the ultimately unsuccessful candidacy of Lionel Jospin in the presidential election in 2002 .

In 2008, Yamina Benguigui was elected Vice Mayor of Paris and has since been responsible for human rights and the fight against discrimination as the representative of Mayor Bertrand Delanoë .

After François Hollande was elected President and Jean-Marc Ayrault was appointed Prime Minister, she was appointed Assistant Minister for the French outside France and Francophonie in his cabinet on May 16, 2012 and, as such, reports to Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1997: Mémoires d'immigrés, l'heritage maghrébin
  • 2001: Inschallah - Finally Sunday
  • 2001: Pimprenelle
  • 2004: Le plafond de verre
  • 2006: Les défricheurs
  • 2008: 9/3, mémoire d'un territoire
  • 2009–2012: Aïcha

Web links

Commons : Yamina Benguigui  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yamina Benguigui, la surprise . In: Le Point on May 16, 2012 (accessed on June 5, 2012)
  2. ↑ Yamina Benguigui: la surprise du government Ayrault . In: Le Parisien of May 16, 2012 (accessed on June 5, 2012)
  3. ↑ Yamina Benguigui, réalisatrice engagée pour la diversité . In: Le Monde, May 16, 2012 (accessed on June 5, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Benguigui, Yamina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille , North Department