Angèle Diabang Brener Explained
| Angèle Diabang Brener |
| Birth Date: | 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Dakar, Senegal |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter, director and film producer |
| Education: | Média Centre de Dakar, La Fémis in Paris, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany |
| Yearsactive: | 2005-present |
Angèle Diabang Brener is a Senegalese screenwriter, director and film producer.
Early life and education
Angèle 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.
Career
She 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".[1] [2] She runs the production company Karoninka which is credited with over a dozen films.[1]
Filmography
- 2005 : Mon beau sourire[3] [4]
- 2007 : L’Homme est le remède de l’homme, with Ousseynou Ndiaye and El Hadji Mamadou "Leuz" Niang
- 2007 : Le Revers de l'exil[2]
- 2007 : Sénégalaises et Islam
- 2008 : Yandé Codou, la griotte de Senghor[5]
- 2014 : Congo, un médecin pour sauver les femmes[1] A documentary on the work of Dr Denis Mukwege.
Awards
- For Sénégalaises et Islam
- 2007 - Jury Prize at Festival Images citoyennes (Liège, Belgium)
See also
References
Further reading
- Françoise Pfaff, 'Angèle Diabang Brener', in À l'écoute du cinéma sénégalais, Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris, 2010, pp. 109–119,
Notes and References
- Web site: Une cinéaste sénégalaise filme des Congolaises victimes de violences. fr. Sabine Cessou, Rfi.fr, 21 November 2014 (fr)
- Web site: Biography of Angèle Diabang on Africiné.org. fr.
- Sénégalaises et islam on Jeune Afrique
- Mon beau sourire on Africultures.com
- [Le Quotidien (Senegal)|Le Quotidien]
