Mama Keïta Explained

Mama Keïta
Native Name:	Mama Keïta
Birth Date:	6 August 1956
Birth Place:	Dakar, Senegal
Occupation:	Film director, screen writer and film producer
Nationality:	Guinean and French
Citizenship:	Guinean and French
Education:	law study at Université de Paris-I
Notable Works:	Ragazzi (1991), Le onzième commandement (1998), L'Absence (2009)

Mama Keïta (also Mama Kéïta and Mama Keita, born in 1956) is a Guinean screen writer, film director, and film producer. After studying law at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, he started out as a screen writer, but in 1981 turned to directing short films and in 1991 his first feature film Ragazzi.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Filmography

Keïta's films include:

Year	Film	Genre	Role	Duration (min)
1981	Le Cafard	Short	Film director
1982	L'Oriental	Short	Film director
1985	Opus 1	Short	Film director
1988	Waps	Short	Film director
1991	Ragazzi	Romantic comedy feature	Film director, screen writer, co-producer	85 m
1993	1993 Nuit blanche	Short	Film director
1996	Choisis-toi un ami...	Drama fiction feature	Film director	90 m
1997	Le Onzième Commandement (11ème commandement, Le)	Fiction feature	Film director, screen writer	80 m
1998	David Achkar, Une Étoile filante^[7]	Portrait documentary	Film director	21 m
2003	Le Fleuve	Comedy feature	Film director	90 m
2004	Le Transfert	Short	Film director
2004	Sur la route du fleuve	Documentary	Film director	52 m
2007	Le sourire du serpent	Thriller feature	Film director, screen writer	90 m
2009	L'Absence^[8]	Drama feature	Film director, screen writer, producer	84 m
2009	One More Vote for Obama	Drama short	Director	14 m
2009	One More Vote for Obama, part of Afrique vue par… (L’)^[9]	Drama short compilation	Director	100 m in total
2011	Le Bonheur d'Elza by Mariette Monpierre	Drama feature	Screen writer, co-producer	79 m
2019	A des Miles du paradis		Film director, screen writer, producer	100 m

Awards

Keïta's films won the following distinctions:

Film	Festival	Award
Choisis-toi un ami..., 1996	49th Locarno Film Festival 1996	CICAE Jury Prize^[10]
Le Fleuve, 2002	Festival Paris Cinéma 2003	Prix de la Presse
L’Absence, 2009	FESPACO 2009 (Burkina Faso)	Best Screenplay

External links

Videos

• . Video duration 2m 02 s. Uploader MostraCinemaAfrica09, 2009. Feature film "L'absence" by MamaKeita (Guinea) 2008 Award for best screenplay Fespaco 2009 - Programmed at the 14th Mostra de Cinema Africà in Barcelona from November 6 to 12, 2009.
• . Video duration 6 m 01s. Uploader KINA TV, 2013. Keïta explains his cinematic vision. French spoken.

Notes and References

1. Book: Armes, Roy . Dictionary of African Filmmakers . 2008 . Indiana University Press . Bloomington and Indianapolis . 978-0-253-35116-6 . en . 83.
2. . Retrieved 2023-10-25.
3. Web site: Mama Keïta (réalisateur). Réalisateur/trice, Ecrivain/ne, Producteur/trice, Scénariste, France, Guinée, Sénégal, Viet Nam . 2023-10-25 . africultures.com . Africultures, Les mondes en relation . fr.
4. Web site: Mama Keïta, Édition en ligne / Online edition 18.09 - 23.09 2023 . 2023 . 2023-10-25 . ouagafilmlab.net . Ouaga Film lab.
5. Web site: Mamadou Keïta Réalisateur/trice Réalisateur guinéen . 2023-10-25 . africine.org . 2020 . Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC) . fr.
6. Web site: Mama Keïta Director Biography Senegal . africanfilmny.org . 25 October 2023 . African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) . New York . Mama Keïta was born in Dakar, Senegal, to a Vietnamese mother and a Guinean father. He studied law at the University of Paris I. He has directed and produced a documentary and several long feature films, including 2009’s award-winning film The Absence / L'Absence..
7. Web site: David Achkar Réalisateur/trice, Scénariste, Guinée . 2023-10-25 . africultures.com . Africultures, Les mondes en relation . fr.
8. L’Absence by Mama Keita. Review . African Studies Review . 57 . 3 . December 2014 . 251-252 . Anaïs . Angelo . 26410104 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge.
9. Compilation of 10 shorts Afrique vue par… (L’) presented at the 2ème Festival panafricain d'Alger 1969 (PANAF, Algeria).
10. Web site: 1996 49th Locarno Film Festival . 2023-10-25 . locarnofestival.ch . Locarno Film Festival.