Sembène Ousmane is from Sénégal. He had quite the career until he died this year. He directed Moolaadé, that film about female "circumcision" that came out a few years ago.
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megan walker - Mar 13, 2008 8:38:35 am PDT #4281 of 10000
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flea - Mar 13, 2008 8:39:47 am PDT #4282 of 10000
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I don't think I could name any African film directors, much less any Francophone ones. I could name writers, though! That counts for something, right?
Tom Scola - Mar 13, 2008 8:39:47 am PDT #4283 of 10000
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I know that Nigeria has a thriving film industry, called "Nollywood", but I don't know how French it is.
megan walker - Mar 13, 2008 8:40:41 am PDT #4284 of 10000
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the biopic about Patrice Lumumba from a couple years ago came to mind.
Sadly, Wikipedia tells me that was directed by a Haitian man.
megan walker - Mar 13, 2008 8:42:01 am PDT #4285 of 10000
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Some Francophone countries:
Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Sénégal
Mali
Mauritania
Côte d’Ivoire
Cameroon
Niger
Congo
Rwanda
Nutty - Mar 13, 2008 8:44:32 am PDT #4286 of 10000
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I know that Nigeria has a thriving film industry, called "Nollywood", but I don't know how French it is.
Nigeria was an English colony, so, not very much at all.
I... think I have seen exactly one French-language film from Africa, and it was in black and white, from the 1960s, and I'm pretty sure it was directed by Ousmane.
Not that I can name very many English-language films from Africa either. (And those I can are almost all South African, and most of them white.)
DavidS - Mar 13, 2008 8:50:06 am PDT #4287 of 10000
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African Cinema at wikipedia has a listing of directors by country.
Djibril Diop Mambety is a major Senegalese director.
megan walker - Mar 13, 2008 8:52:14 am PDT #4288 of 10000
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Yes, I found that, I'm just trying to get an idea of relative name recognition.
I figure if you guys don't know them, I shouldn't assume anyone else does.
Sue - Mar 13, 2008 9:20:41 am PDT #4289 of 10000
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megan walker - Mar 13, 2008 9:31:53 am PDT #4290 of 10000
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How about Quebecois filmmakers that aren't Denys Arcand?