DIRECTORES
INVITADOS QAFF 2019
Jhonny Hendrix
Director
Jhonny Hendrix nació el 12 de octubre de 1975 en Quibdó, Choco. Director y productor de cine con 14 años de experiencia. En el año 2003 creó Antorcha Films, una empresa dedicada a la producción de proyectos cinematográficos propios, así como a la prestación de servicios de producción para cine y televisión.
Djo Munga
Director
Djo Tunda Wa Munga was born in 1972 in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He went to the National Film School of Belgium, INSAS in his early twenties. After living in Europe, he returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and established a film production company dedicated to training young filmmakers.
Sally Fenaux Barleycorn
Director
Sally is the daughter of African and European migrants. She has been working in the film industry in 2009, and premiered her first short film in Amsterdam (NL) in 2015. As a director her focus has always been to translate emotional experiences into images, ideas into visual metaphors, exploring how much one can communicate beyond the ‘rational’ into the hearts of an audience.
Angele Diabang
Director
Angèle Diabang was trained at the Center Media in Dakar, at FEMIS in Paris, at the Filmakademie in Germany and at the Eurodoc production training program. She started as a film editor before making her first documentary short film "Mon Beau Sourire" in 2005, which is shown in more than fifty festivals.
David-Pierre Fila
Director
David-Pierre Fila is a Congolese director. He made his first short film in Central Africa: Letero (the Mask of the Magician). The film tells the story of a young man who must take over the guardian of the mask when his father dies. The work is presented at the Ouagadougou Festival. In 1984, he created in Dakar, Senegal, a production collective, «Media Afric».
Joël Karekezi
Director
Joel Karekezi graduated in 2008 with a Diploma in Film Directing from Cinecours. In 2009, with the support of the Maisha Film Lab, he directed his short film The Pardon, which won the Golden Impala Award at the Amakula Film Festival in Uganda and the 2010 award for Best Short Film at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival. He received a development award from the Göteborg International Film Festival Fund for his first feature film Imbabazi: The Pardon, which was screened at festivals around the world.
Sol de Carvalho
Director
Sol de Carvalho was born in 1953 in Beira, Mozambique, studied at the Conservatório Nacional de Cinema in Lisbon and worked as a journalist, editor and photographer. Already during his studies in Portugal Sol de Carvalho was a political activist against the Salazar regime.
Sara Gouveia
Director
Sara has produced and directed several short documentaries, music videos and international campaigns such as "Wanted for her Body Parts" for Amnesty International and "NGIYAPHILA: Spirituality and Sexuality" for Steps for the Future, and has also worked as a director of photography.
Likarion Wainaina
Director
Kenyan filmmaker Likarion Wainaina was born in Moscow, Russia, but now lives in Nairobi, where he works as a director and director of photography. He has worked in several documentaries and commercials as a camera operator and has directed several television programs and short films.
Renato Candido de Lima
Director
Renato Candido de Lima, 37 anos, é cineasta Bacharel em Audiovisual, Mestre em Ciências da Comunicação e doutorando em Audiovisual sempre pela ECA/USP. Nos projetos acadêmicos trabalhou interlocuções entre dramaturgia e identidades negra e popular. Sob orientação da Livre Docente Esther Império Hamburger, Renato Candido desenvolveu em seu mestrado o projeto e roteiro de longa metragem “Menina Mulher da Pele Preta”.
Andres Orozco Quintero
Director
Nació en Santa Rosa de Cabal (Risaralda, Colombia) el 26 de junio de 1991. Aprendió a contar historias a través de la cámara desde que tenía 6 años cuando su padre compró una cámara Sony Handycam video 8 y documentaba la vida de su familia, sus amigos y su entorno laboral. Andrés ganó el Premio Nacional de Periodismo del Círculo de Periodistas de Bogotá (CPB) 2019 en la categoría de "Televisión".
Yazid El Kadiri
Director
Yazid El Kadiri est né à Fès le 01 Janvier 1996. Il est lauréat d’un Master spécialisé en Développement et Gestion de l’audiovisuelle et cinématographique, option réalisation de la 1ere promotion de L'Institut Supérieur des Métiers de l'Audiovisuel et du Cinéma (ISMAC) à Rabat (2013-2018).
Nancy Kamal
Director
An independent Egyptian visual artist, Nancy Kamal was born in Cairo in 1977. She was graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts- Cartoon Animation department in 2000, her graduation project was a short animation film (Esteftahak Laban). Besides that, 1999 she started working as an interactive art director in digital media and commercials.
Angela Ramirez
Director
Comunicadora Audiovisual con experiencia en Colombia y Sudáfrica. Realizadora de contenidos para televisión cultural, videos promocionales, institucionales y experimentales. Gestora y coordinadora de proyectos culturales de transformación social. Sus documentales Welcome a Tumaco y Mama Goema, la música de Ciudad del Cabo en Cinco Movimientos, ganaron el premio a Mejor Documental en FICCI, 2006, el Encounters Documentary Film Festival y en el Tri Continental Film Festival, 2011.
Wilfrid Massamba
Director
Wildrid Massamba, fotógrafo, director de cine, congolés nacido en 1970. Ha dedicado su trabajo a demostrar la fuerza que surge a través del sentimiento de las personas, partiendo de situaciones comunes. Director de la fundación Basango, quien a la vez como director de cine, ha participado en diferentes proyectos alrededor del mundo; Colombia, Kosovo, Jordania, Panamá, entre otros.