Gahité Fofana

Gahité Fofana
Gahité Fofana
Born	1965; France
Nationality	Guinean
Citizenship	Guinean
Occupation(s)	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:^[2]^[4]

Year	Film	Description	Role	Duration
1994	Tanun^[5]	Documentary	Writer, director	54m
1995	Saï Saï by, Dakar la salope / Dans les tapats de Dakar	Documentary by Bouna Médoune Sèye	Editor	12m
1995	Une parole, un visage (A word, a face)	Documentary	Director	26m
1996	Témédy (Temedy, Tèmèdy)	Short	Writer, director, editor	10m
1997	Mathias, le procès des gangs (Mathias, the trial of gangs)	Documentary	Writer, director	50m
1998	Le Soleil se maquille (Sun makes up)	Documentary	Director	26m
2001	I.T. - Immatriculation temporaire (Temporary registration)^[1]	Feature	Writer, director, producer, actor	1h 13m
2005	Un matin bonne heure [fr] (Yaguine et Fodé) (Early one morning)^[1]^[6]	Feature	Writer, director, producer, editor	1h 15m
2011	28 Septembre, Année Zéro^[7]	Documentary	Director, editor	52m
2012	La Journée de N'ga Touré	Documentary by Billy Touré	Producer	13m
2013	Rêves meurtris	Documentary by Hady M. Diawara	Producer	13m
2015	La lune est tombé (The moon fell, Hinter dem Mond)	Feature	Writer, director, producer, editor	1h 17m
2017	Wallay^[8]^[9]	Feature by Berni Goldblat	Adaptation	1h 24m

Awards

Fofana won Special Jury Prizes at the Venice Film Festival in 1996 for Une parole, un visage and Tèmèdy and at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (FIFF) in 2001 for I.T. - Immatriculation temporaire.^[2]

External links

Film extracts

Tanun Extrait 2/2 on YouTube. Bafila Films Vidéos, 2013. Duration 1m 34s.
Un Matin Bonne Heure (Yaguine & Fodé) Extrait 1/5 on YouTube. Bafila Films Vidéos, 2013. Duration 1m 40s. Following extracts 2/5: 52s, 3/5: 3m 2s, 4/5: 1m 29s, 5/5: 2m 55s.
Tèmèdy Extrait on YouTube. Bafila Films Vidéos, 2013. Duration 1m 30s.
28 Septembre, Année Zéro Extrait : Conacrime on YouTube. Bafila Films Vidéos, 2016. Duration 1m 29s.
28 Septembre, Année Zéro Extrait 2/3 on YouTube. Bafila Films Vidéos, 2016. Duration 2m 11s. Following extract 3/3: 2m 22s.
La Lune est tombée - Home Sweet Home on YouTube. Philippe EIDEL, 2016. Duration 3m 11s.

Interviews

Fifi 2011 Rencontre avec Gahité Fofana on YouTube. Krysalide Diffusion, 2011. Duration 4m 49s. Festival Cinemondes 2011, Le Festival International du Film Independent (Fifi).
Gahité Fofana on YouTube. KINA TV, 2013. Duration 5m 01s.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-253-35116-6. Fofana, Gahité (b. 1965 in France). Guinean filmmaker. Studied literature and filmmaking in Paris.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Gahité Fofana Réalisateur/trice, Acteur/trice, Producteur/trice". africine.org (in French). Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC). 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2023. Etudes de lettres et de cinéma à Paris. Gahité Fofana s'est d'abord distingué comme documentariste.
^ "Gahité Fofana". africanfilmny.org. African Film Festival New York. Retrieved 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.
^ Gahité Fofana at IMDb. International Movie Database. Consulted on 16 June 2023.
^ "Tanun. Documentaire". film-documentaire.fr. Film DOC Association film-documentaire.fr. 2006. Retrieved 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.
^ "Un matin bonne heure. Gahité Fofana. IFFR 2006. Tiger Awards Competition". iffr.com. International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). 2006. Retrieved 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.
^ "28 septembre, Année Zéro". clapnoir.org (in French). Association Clap Noir. 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
^ "Wallay". unifrance.org. Unifrance, a nonprofit association promoting French cinema and audiovisual abroad. 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
^ Gobbo, Stéphane (16 August 2017). ""Wallay", ou comment accepter son identité métissée". letemps.ch (in French). Le Temps SA. Retrieved 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.

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[Armes-1] Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-253-35116-6. Fofana, Gahité (b. 1965 in France). Guinean filmmaker. Studied literature and filmmaking in Paris.

[Africine-2] "Gahité Fofana Réalisateur/trice, Acteur/trice, Producteur/trice". africine.org (in French). Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC). 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2023. Etudes de lettres et de cinéma à Paris. Gahité Fofana s'est d'abord distingué comme documentariste.

[New_York-3] "Gahité Fofana". africanfilmny.org. African Film Festival New York. Retrieved 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] Gahité Fofana at IMDb. International Movie Database. Consulted on 16 June 2023.

[5] "Tanun. Documentaire". film-documentaire.fr. Film DOC Association film-documentaire.fr. 2006. Retrieved 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] "Un matin bonne heure. Gahité Fofana. IFFR 2006. Tiger Awards Competition". iffr.com. International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). 2006. Retrieved 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] "28 septembre, Année Zéro". clapnoir.org (in French). Association Clap Noir. 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2023.

[8] "Wallay". unifrance.org. Unifrance, a nonprofit association promoting French cinema and audiovisual abroad. 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2023.

[9] Gobbo, Stéphane (16 August 2017). ""Wallay", ou comment accepter son identité métissée". letemps.ch (in French). Le Temps SA. Retrieved 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.

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