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Yoro MBAYE

Project:
FAGADAGA
Fiction / Senegal

Synopsis

Ousseynou (40) is husband of Fatou and father of Alioune. They all live in a village where fish-ing is the only economic activity that allows the men of the villages to feed their families. Nafi is Ousseynou’s sister-in-law and neighbor. Nafi’s late father was a baker in the village a long time ago; his traditional bakery was forcibly closed for hidden reasons.
Because of the presence of the powerful Chi-nese and Western industrial boats which prac-tice illegal fishing, Ousseynou can no longer make a living from his fishing profession. He is forced to quit his job.

In his village where bread is a luxury, Ousseynou turns into a reseller of unsold, stale and moldy bread called “ fagadaga “ to provide for his family. However, the opening of the traditional bakery of his sister-in-law Nafi (30), sounds like an affront to him and gradually threatens his business.

Pascale APPORA-GNEKINDY

Project:
EAT BITTER
Documentary / République Centrafricaine

Synopsis

After years of civil war, my country, the Cen-tral African Republic, one of the poorest in the world, is rising from the ashes. Construction is flourishing in the capital Bangui. As in other Af-rican countries, skilled migrants from China are at the heart of this modernization. Through the parallel and crossed stories of Chinese immi-grants and Central Africans, Eat Bitter captures the journey of two communities, cultures and men who are diametrically opposed. But they learn to work together with the same goal in mind: to build a bank, a symbol of power and money. Our characters don’t hesitate to strip the earth and destroy their family lives for a seat at the table of prosperity. Indeed, behind this so-called progress and new openness is a less glowing reality. Workers sacrifice their dignity, abuse their bodies, and spoil the environment to extract sand, an essential construction mate-rial. And this disappearing sand is pushing them to take ever more risks to get hold of it.

Duga, The scavengers

Synopsis

As he was getting ready to enjoy this beautiful morning, the news was broken to him: “Pierre has just passed away! He must be locally buried as soon as possible. We can’t afford to transfer the body to his village.”

His world is instantly turned upside down. The true human nature reveals itself to Rasmané. Everywhere, the doors close. At the church, he is told, “Pierre was not baptized. No Chris- tian burial for him!”. At the mosque, they reply: “Pierre, this is a Christian name! It’s a sin to bury a non-Muslim.”

What to do with this body that no one wants to take? How can we deny to a human being this last gesture of charity, under the pretext of not belonging to any religious community?

Selected for FESPACO 2019 and won the Signis award and the UEMOA award.

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OUAGA FILM LAB #7 Call for projects is now open!

Call for project Ouaga Film Lab

OUAGA FILM LAB, first development and co-production laboratory in sub-Saharan Africa, is launching its call for projects for its 7th edition which will take place mid-September 2022 in Ouagadougou (the exact dates will be communicated as soon as possible, depending on the evolution of the sanitary situation).

OUAGA FILM LAB is a meeting platform for talents from the African continent and international consultants. It is a major film incubator in Africa that relies on skills preparation of producers and directors in order to strengthen their competitiveness in the various international laboratories and to facilitate them access to local financing funds and international co-productions.

New! For this 2022 edition, the call for projects is now open to all countries of the African continent, for feature films (fiction or documentary) and series (fiction or documentary).

At the end of the call,12 projects will be selected. The artistic quality of the projects presented, as well as the sensitivity of the subject matter are the main selection criteria.

At the end of the Lab, several writing residency grants in Africa and Europe will be awarded to the best projects.

Registration is free and should be done online : https://www.ouagafilmlab.net
Registration deadline: May 15th, 2022, at 00:00 GMT

All entries must comply with the criteria set out in the rules & regulations and must include all the required documents. The file must be written in French or English.
Any candidate (director or producer) has the right to submit maximum 2 projects.

Communiqué de presse 2021

Le collectif génération créative présente la 6e édition de Ouaga Film Lab. L’irremplaçable, incontournable, haute en couleur et pleine de créativité plateforme dédiée aux porteurs de projets de films fictions, documentaires se tiendra à Ouagadougou, capitale du cinéma africain du 13 au 22 octobre 2021.

Un rendez-vous incontournable pour les jeunes talents du cinéma africain

Ouaga Film Lab est un laboratoire de développement, de production, de coproduction, et de renforcement de la compétitivité des réalisateurs et producteurs des pays Africains. En favorisant les rencontres entre experts et jeunes talents du continent africain, il vise à faciliter leur accès aux différents grands laboratoires internationaux et aux fonds de financement domestiques, ainsi qu’à des co-productions internationales. A l’instar des précédentes éditions, 10 binômes porteurs de projets films bénéficieront d’un programme d’incubation sous forme d’ateliers de formation, de masterclasses, de mentorings, de one to one et de pitchs. Ces activités se dérouleront sous l’égide d’éminents professionnels du 7e art que sont : Jihan El Tahri, Moussa Sène Absa, Mama Kéita, Pédro Pimenta, Stéfano Téaldi, Dora Bouchoucha et Aurélien Bodinaux.

Ouaga Film Lab 6, partenaire de la 27e édition du FESPACO

La 6e édition du laboratoire se tiendra en marge de la 27e édition du FESPACO, le Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou dans son volet « FESPACO PRO ». Ce partenariat répond à la volonté des deux structures de mutualiser les compétences afin de faire de Ouaga Film Lab l’incubateur par excellence du cinéma africain.

Des récompenses pertinentes

A l’issue d’une séance de pitch qui permettra aux 10 binômes participants au laboratoire de défendre leurs projets, les meilleurs projets de films repartiront avec des bourses de résidence d’écriture ou de formation.

À titre d’exemple, cette année nous avons :

OFL 2021 LISTE DES PRIX

PRIX IDRISSA OUÉDRAOGO : Bourse pour une résidence d’écriture au Moulin d’Andé, en partenariat avec le CNC (France)

PRIX SUD ÉCRITURE : Bourse pour une résidence d’écriture en Tunisie

PRIX INSTITUT FRANÇAIS « PARCOURS » : Bourse offerte par l’Institut français Paris pour des consultations, à différents stades de développement du projet, auprès de professionnels.

PRIX MEDIENBOARD BERLIN–BRANDENBURG : Bourse pour une résidence d’écriture de 3 mois à Berlin (Allemagne)

PRIX FIDADOC : Bourse pour un atelier de développement de projet documentaire au Festival international de film documentaire d’Agadir (Maroc)

PRIX GROUPE OUEST / Sélection Annuelle 2021 : Présélection d’un projet de long-métrage à la sélection Annuelle, le dispositif de coaching d’auteurs francophones du Groupe Ouest

PRIX GROUPE OUEST / LIM – Less is More 2020 : Pré-sélection d’un projet de long-métrage à LIM – Less is More, le programme européen de développement de films à budget limité

DOC PRIX WORLD CINEMA FUND / GOETHE INSTITUT : Coaching pour le développement et la production d’un projet documentaire offert par le Berlinale World Cinema Fund et le Goethe Institute (Allemagne). Coach : Marta Andreu.

PRIX WCF AUDIENCE DESIGN: consulting intensif et mentorat pour développer une stratégie complète de conception du public pour un projet de long-métrage.

Jury for the Audience Design Award: Vincenzo Bugno (Head of the WCF), Isona Admetlla (Fund Coordinator) Dorothee Wenner (Berlinale) and Lina Chaabane (Producer)

PRIX ALCA de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine en collaboration avec Poitiers Film Festival : Bourse pour participer aux « Ateliers Jump In » du Poitiers Film Festival

ROTTERDAM LAB : Bourse pour un producteur pour participer au Rotterdam Lab pendant le IFFR – Festival International du Film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas)

PRIX DOC-A : Bourses de production pour un projet documentaire avancé

PRIX DES ATELIERS DE L’ATLAS DU FESTIVAL DE MARRAKECH : Bourse de participation à l’atelier de l’Atlas du festival de Marrakech

PRIX MIRADAS DOCS : Pré-sélection d’un projet pour une bourse de participation au forum de pitch Miradas Docs pendant le Festival international de films Documentaires Guía de Isora (Iles Canaries, Espagne)

PRIX VISIONS DU RÉEL : Invitation à participer à VdR–Industry 2022, incluant consultations individuelles

Dora Bouchoucha

Dora Bouchoucha has produced numerous Tunisian and foreign feature films with her company NOMADIS IMAGES, including “Red Satin”, “Les Secrets”, “A Tunisian Spring” and “Foreign Body” by Raja Amari and “Inhebbek Hedi” by Mohamed Ben Attia (Award for Best First Film Berlinale 2016).

Dora Bouchoucha created the Carthage Film Festival Workshop in 1992, Takmil in 2014 and the Scriptwriting Development Workshop SUD ECRITURE in 1997. For more than ten years she was a member of the CineMart-Rotterdam Film Festival’s Expert Committee and was a consultant for the Venice Film Festival to select Arab and African films from 2007 to 2011.

In 2010, she chaired the Fonds Sud and in 2012, the Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (CNC). She was Director of the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage in 2008, 2010 and 2014. In 2017, she was a member of the International Jury of the Berlinale.

Jihan El-Tahri

Jihan El-Tahri is an award winning director, writer, producer and visual artist. She is an Egyptian and French national. In 1990 she began directing and producing documentaries for the BBC, PBS, Arte and other international broadcasters. Her most recent is “Nasser” part of this year’s official selection at Toronto International Festival. She teaches documentary production at various international institutions. She served as treasurer of the Guild of African Filmmakers in the Diaspora, Regional Secretary of the Federation of Pan African Cinema, Advisor on Focus Feature’s Africa first Program. She is also a Mentor at the Documentary Campus.

Mama Keïta

Mama Keïta was born 1956 in Senegal as the son of a Vietnamese mother and a Guinean father. After studying law in Paris, he starts writing screen plays. Between 1981 and 1997 Keita directs five short films.
The documentary “David Achkar, une étoile filante” (1998) is a personal obituary for a deceased friend. His first feature “Le fleuve” (2002) receives the Press Award at the Paris Film Festival. In 2003 he directs “Le Sourire du Serpent” and in 2009, besides “L’Absence” he makes the short film “One more vote for Obama” as part of the Pan African short film project.

Pedro Pimenta

Pedro Pimenta started his career with the National Film Institute of Mozambique in 1977. Since then, he has produced numerous short fiction, documentaries and feature films in Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and South Africa. He is a co-founder of Ebano Multimedia, leading in-dependent production company in Mozambique.

Pedro worked with the UNESCO Zimbabwe Film & Video Training Project for Southern Africa and was the Production mentor of “Africa & Pinocchio”, a professional training program for produc-ers in West Africa.

He is the founder and Director of DOCKANEMA Film Festival in Mozambique, and until November 2015, he directed of the Durban International Film Festival.

Karim AITOUNA

Graduated in Law, in film studies and in cultural management, Karim Aitouna is a film producer working between France and Morocco with HAUT les MAINS productions in Lyon and Waq Waq Studio in Tangier. In 2013, he was selected as Emerging Producer at the Jihlava DIFF. He produced among others productions : Anna Roussillon’s award-winning “I Am The People” (2014), David Yon’s “The Night And The Kid” (2015), Rä Di Martino “Contro Figura”, “Poisonous Rose”s by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh, awarded more than 16 international awards and Egypt Oscar nominated for 2020 and lately the documentaries “Dans La Maison” by Karima Saidi & “Gevar’s Land” by Qutaiba Barhamji, and “Europe” by Philip Scheffner.

Karim Aitouna is member of EAVE and EURODOC. He worked as lecturer and consultant for many funds, Labs and festivals ( IFFR Pro Days by Rotterdam IFF, Open Doors Pro by Locarno IFF, Alpi Film Lab by Torino Film Lab, Les Ateliers de l’Atlas by Marrakech IFF, Red Sea Film Fund, etc)