Gahité Fofana Explained

Gahité Fofana
Birth Date:1965
Birth Place:France
Nationality:Guinean
Citizenship:Guinean
Occupation:film director, screen writer, film editor
Known For:Mathias, le procès des gangs (1997), I.T. - Immatriculation temporaire (2001), Un matin bonne heure (2006), La lune est tombée (2015)

Gahité Fofana (born 1965 in France) is a Guinean film director, producer, editor, actor and screen writer who studied literature and filmmaking in Paris. Starting out as a creator of documentary films, he later wrote, directed and produced feature films.[1] [2] [3]

Filmography

Fofana's films include:[4]

- ! Year Film Description Role Duration - Tanun[5] Documentary Writer, director 54m - Saï Saï by, Dakar la salope / Dans les tapats de Dakar Editor 12m - 1995 Une parole, un visage (A word, a face) Documentary Director 26m - Témédy (Temedy, Tèmèdy) Writer, director, editor 10m - Mathias, le procès des gangs (Mathias, the trial of gangs) Documentary Writer, director 50m - Le Soleil se maquille (Sun makes up) Documentary Director 26m - I.T. - Immatriculation temporaire (Temporary registration) Feature Writer, director, producer, actor 1h 13m - Un matin bonne heure (Yaguine et Fodé) (Early one morning, fr)[6] Feature Writer, director, producer, editor 1h 15m - 28 Septembre, Année Zéro[7] Documentary Director, editor 52m - La Journée de N'ga Touré Documentary by Billy Touré Producer 13m - Rêves meurtris Documentary by Hady M. Diawara Producer 13m - La lune est tombé (The moon fell, Hinter dem Mond) Feature Writer, director, producer, editor 1h 17m - Wallay[8] [9] Adaptation 1h 24m

Awards

Fofana won Special Jury Prizes at the Venice Film Festival in 1996 for Une parole, un visage and Tèmèdyand at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (FIFF) in 2001 for I.T. - Immatriculation temporaire.

External links

Film extracts

Interviews

Notes and References

  1. Book: Armes, Roy . 2008 . Dictionary of African Filmmakers . Bloomington and Indianapolis . Indiana University Press . 66 . 978-0-253-35116-6 . Fofana, Gahité (b. 1965 in France). Guinean filmmaker. Studied literature and filmmaking in Paris..
  2. Web site: Gahité Fofana Réalisateur/trice, Acteur/trice, Producteur/trice . 2020 . Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC) . africine.org . 16 June 2023 . Etudes de lettres et de cinéma à Paris. Gahité Fofana s'est d'abord distingué comme documentariste. . fr.
  3. Web site: Gahité Fofana . africanfilmny.org . African Film Festival New York . 16 June 2023 . Gahité Fofana was born in 1965 in France to a Guinean father and a French mother. He studied literature and film in Paris, and worked as a film editor making his first short, Tanun in 1994 which earned him the Black Movies award in Geneva in 1995..
  4. . International Movie Database. Consulted on 16 June 2023.
  5. Web site: Tanun. Documentaire. . 2006 . film-documentaire.fr . Film DOC Association film-documentaire.fr . 16 June 2023 . El Hadh Mamadouba Fofana was born in 1906 at Tanéné, a village in Guinea, West Africa. His father, his father's father and his great great grand-father were known as Karamokos, spiritual guides or leaders in the traditional sense..
  6. Web site: Un matin bonne heure. Gahité Fofana. IFFR 2006. Tiger Awards Competition . 2006 . iffr.com . International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) . 16 June 2023 . Early in the Morning is a moving indictment and sober and atmospheric narrative that does not mythologise. It is based on a true story..
  7. Web site: 28 septembre, Année Zéro . 2011 . clapnoir.org . Association Clap Noir . 16 June 2023 . French.
  8. Web site: Wallay . 2023 . unifrance.org . Unifrance, a nonprofit association promoting French cinema and audiovisual abroad . 16 June 2023 .
  9. Web site: "Wallay", ou comment accepter son identité métissée . Gobbo . Stéphane . 16 August 2017 . letemps.ch . Le Temps SA . 16 June 2023 . Le Festival Cinémas d’Afrique de Lausanne projette en ouverture, ce jeudi, un beau et sensible récit initiatique du réalisateur helvético-burkinabé Berni Goldblat. . French.