Thierno Faty Sow Explained
| Thierno Faty Sow |
| Birth Date: | December 23, 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Thiès, Senegal |
| Death Place: | Dakar, Senegal |
| Nationality: | Senegalese |
| Occupation: | film director, screenwriter and actor |
| Notable Works: | Camp de Thiaroye (1988), feature film codirected with Ousmane Sembène |
Thierno Faty Sow (Thiès, Senegal, 1941 – Dakar, 2009) was a Senegalese filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.
Biography
Born in 1941 in Thiès, Senegal, Sow studied filmmaking in Paris at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français (CLCF, fr)[1] [2] and subsequently worked in French and Senegalese television. He directed documentary shorts and three feature films on his own: Guereo, village de Djibril N'Diaye (1970), L'Option / Mon beau pays (1974), and L'Œil (1981). Sow is best known for the historical drama film Camp de Thiaroye about the Thiaroye massacre near Dakar on December 1, 1944, which he cowrote and codirected with Ousmane Sembène.[3] [4] [5] It won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 45th Venice International Film Festival in 1988.[6]
Sow also performed as a movie actor in two feature films, Nuit africaine (1990) by Gérard Guillaume and cowriters Gaston Kaboré and Lapeyssonie, and Guelwaar (1992) by Ousmane Sembène. Sow died from illness in Dakar on December 6, 2009.[7] [8]
Filmography
Sow's films include:
| Year | Film | Genre | Role | Duration |
|---|
| 1970 | La journée de Djibril N'Diaye -
Journée d'un paysan sénégalais | Biography feature
(24 hours in the life of a Senegalese farmer) | Director | 60 min |
| 1970 | Guereo, village de Djibril N'Diaye | Feature in black and white
(A man prepares to marry a second wife to help
the first with the heavy work.) | Director | 90 min |
| 1974 | L'Option / Mon beau pays | Biography feature, Wolof spoken
(After Independence a Senegalese soldier prefers to stay in France.) | Director | 90 min |
| | | Second Unit or
Assistant Director for 1 episode | 90 min |
| 1977 | Exode rural | Short | Director | |
| 1977 | Education sanitaire | Short documentary | Director | |
| 1977 | Feux de brousse/
Feu de brousse | Short | Director | |
| 1977 | Sunu Koppe | Short | Director | |
| 1981 | L'Œil | Historical feature
(On mercenaries and military coups in Africa.) | Director | 80 min |
| 1987 | Camp de Thiaroye | Historical drama feature
(In 1944, the French army massacred several units
of West African conscripts recently returned
from the battlefields of Europe.) | Screenwriter and Codirector
with Ousmane Sembène | 148 or 157 min |
| 1990 | Nuit africaine (La)
by Gérard Guillaume | Historical feature, TV movie
(Eugène Jamot, a doctor in the colonial army, was
an extraordinary fighter for health in Equatorial
and Western Africa.) | Actor | 104 min |
| 1992 | Guelwaar, Légende africaine
de l'Afrique du XXIe siècle
by Ousmane Sembène | Feature
(By mistake, a Catholic man is given a Muslim burial.) | Actor | 115 min | |
Bibliography
- Book: Armes, Roy . 2008 . Dictionary of African Filmmakers . Bloomington . Indiana University Press] . 0253000424. Page 121.
- Artese . A. . September 1988 . Conversazione con Ousmane Sembene e Thierno Faty Sow . Cineforum . 28 . 277 . Italian.
- Book: Vieyra, Paulin Soumanou . Paulin Soumanou Vieyra . 1983 . Le cinéma au Sénégal . Bruxelles . OCIC . 2858022801 . 958999363 . french . Cinemedia. Cinemas d'Afrique Noire, 4.
See also
External links
- . Video duration 1h 18m 22s. Uploader: Afrique Raconte Moi Paulina Gomis, 2014. "Camp de Thiaroye (également connu sous le nom Le Camp de Thiaroye) est un 1988 sénégalais guerre – film dramatique écrit et réalisé par Ousmane Sembene et Thierno Faty Sow. Le film est entré dans la compétition au 45e Festival International du Film de Venise, où il a remporté le prix spécial du jury. Le film dépeint le massacre de Thiaroye qui s'est passé en Thiaroye, Dakar, en 1944." *(Translation: Camp de Thiaroye (also known as Le Camp de Thiaroye) is a 1988 Senegalese war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow. The film entered the competition of the 45th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. The film depicts the Thiaroye massacre which happened in Thiaroye, Dakar, in 1944.) Full movie in French and Wolof language.
Notes and References
- Armes, R. 2008.
- Web site: Thierno Faty Sow Réalisateur/trice, Producteur/trice, Scénariste (Homme) Sénégal . Barlet . Olivier . 2023 . africultures.com . Africultures les mondes en relation . 8 September 2023 .
- Shaka . Femi Okiremuete . 1995 . Vichy Dakar and the Other Story of French Colonial Stewardship in Africa: A Critical Reading of Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow's "Camp de Thiaroye" . Research in African Literatures . 26 . 3 . 67–77 . 9970187933. At JSTOR.
- Web site: Décès de Thierno Faty Sow, coréalisateur de ‘’ Camp de Thiaroye’’ . 6 December 2009 . seneweb.com . Seneweb . 8 September 2023 . French . Dakar, 6 déc (APS) – Le cinéaste sénégalais Thierno Faty Sow est décédé dimanche matin à Dakar à l’âge de 67 ans, des suites d’une maladie, a appris l’Agence de Presse sénégalaise de bonne source..
- Web site: SOW, Thierno Faty . https://web.archive.org/web/20110814040540/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/290149?view=credit . 2011-08-14 . . ftvdb.bfi.org.uk.
- Book: Lancia, Enrico . I Premi del Cinema: 1927–1997 . Gremese . Rome . it . 1998 . 8877422211 . 636460641.
- Web site: THIERNO FATY SOW . citwf.com . The Complete Film Index to World Film since 1895 . 8 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092807/http://www.citwf.com/person49961.htm . 2007-09-29.
- Web site: Thierno Faty Sow Film director Producer Screenwriter . africine.org . Fédération Africaine de la Critique Cinématographique (FACC) . 8 September 2023 . Filmography / Filmographie Education Sanitaire Feu de Brosse Guéréo (with Pape Samba Sow) L'Oeil L'Option La Journée de Djibril Ndiaye (with Pape Samba Sow) Sunu Koppe.
