Angèle Diabang Brener is a Senegalese screenwriter, director and film producer.[1]
Angèle Diabang Brener | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1979 Dakar, Senegal |
| Education | Média Centre de Dakar, La Fémis in Paris, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, director and film producer |
| Years active | 2005-present |
Early life and education
editAngèle Diabang Brener was born in Dakar in 1979. Her training and education in film making took place in Dakar at the Média Centre de Dakar, subsequently at the French state film school La Fémis in Paris, and then at the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany.[2]
Career
editShe began her career as a film editor then in 2005 she directed her first film, a documentary on the beauty standards for Senegalese women entitled "Mon beau sourire".[2][3] She runs the production company Karoninka which is credited with over a dozen films.[2]
Filmography
edit- 2005 : Mon beau sourire[4][5]
- 2007 : L’Homme est le remède de l’homme, with Ousseynou Ndiaye and El Hadji Mamadou "Leuz" Niang
- 2007 : Le Revers de l'exil[3]
- 2007 : Sénégalaises et Islam
- 2008 : Yandé Codou, la griotte de Senghor[6]
- 2014 : Congo, un médecin pour sauver les femmes[2] A documentary on the work of Dr Denis Mukwege.
Awards
edit- For Sénégalaises et Islam
- 2007 - Jury Prize at Festival Images citoyennes (Liège, Belgium)
- 2007 - Mention spéciale (Jury distinction) at the Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique du pays d'Apt (Apt Festival of African Films, Apt, France)
See also
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References
edit- ^ Angèle Diabang Brener at IMDb
- ^ a b c d "Une cinéaste sénégalaise filme des Congolaises victimes de violences" (in French). Sabine Cessou, Rfi.fr, 21 November 2014 (fr)
- ^ a b "Biography of Angèle Diabang on Africiné.org" (in French).
- ^ (in French)Sénégalaises et islam Archived June 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine on Jeune Afrique
- ^ (in French)Mon beau sourire Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine on Africultures.com
- ^ Le Quotidien, Horizon Angèle Diabang, réalisatrice, productrice : « Etre cinéaste, ce n'est pas capter un moment et le montrer sur YouTube » (23 February 2019) [1] (Retrieved 2 June 2019)
Further reading
edit- Françoise Pfaff, 'Angèle Diabang Brener', in À l'écoute du cinéma sénégalais, Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris, 2010, pp. 109–119, ISBN 9782296103528
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