Thierno Souleymane Diallo’s former film tutor tells him that Guinea was once the capital of African cinema. What happened? His own students now struggle to come up with a list of seven Guinean filmmakers, some of whom are dead or work overseas. In this documentary, which screened as part of the 2024 Glasgow Film Festival, Diallo sets out to locate a copy of the first ever film made by a Black Guinean; and in the process, his own film emerges as the potential herald of a national cinematic revival.
Mouramani, directed by Mamadou Touré in 1953, is a film which many older people have heard of and some have seen, but nobody seems to know what happened to it. It was made when the country was under French colonial rule, and that was three coups, a civil war and two epidemics ago. Though rich in natural resources, Guinea is now...
Mouramani, directed by Mamadou Touré in 1953, is a film which many older people have heard of and some have seen, but nobody seems to know what happened to it. It was made when the country was under French colonial rule, and that was three coups, a civil war and two epidemics ago. Though rich in natural resources, Guinea is now...
- 3/11/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Matthew Bauer’s doc follows a diverse group of men across the globe who all share the same name: James Bond.
Paris-based sales company Reservoir Docs has inked new deals for Matthew Bauer’s The Other Fellow including the UK’s Bulldog Film Distribution, and has boarded Thierno Souleymane Diallo’s Berlin Panorama title The Cemetery of Cinema.
The UK deal for The Other Fellow follows sales to Yes in Israel, Filmin and TV3 in Spain, Canal+ Polska in Poland, Sbs in Australia and McF Megacom for the former Yugoslavia. Bulldog Film Distribution plans to release The Other Fellow in...
Paris-based sales company Reservoir Docs has inked new deals for Matthew Bauer’s The Other Fellow including the UK’s Bulldog Film Distribution, and has boarded Thierno Souleymane Diallo’s Berlin Panorama title The Cemetery of Cinema.
The UK deal for The Other Fellow follows sales to Yes in Israel, Filmin and TV3 in Spain, Canal+ Polska in Poland, Sbs in Australia and McF Megacom for the former Yugoslavia. Bulldog Film Distribution plans to release The Other Fellow in...
- 2/6/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
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