Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Acronyms
- Dedication
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I CONTEXT
- PART II CONFRONTING REALITY
- PART III NEW IDENTITIES
- PART IV THE NEW MILLENNIUM
- 9 The Post-Independence Generation
- 10 Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad)
- 11 Dani Kouyaté (Burkina Faso)
- 12 Raja Amari (Tunisia)
- 13 Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco)
- 14 Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania)
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad)
from PART IV - THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Acronyms
- Dedication
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I CONTEXT
- PART II CONFRONTING REALITY
- PART III NEW IDENTITIES
- PART IV THE NEW MILLENNIUM
- 9 The Post-Independence Generation
- 10 Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad)
- 11 Dani Kouyaté (Burkina Faso)
- 12 Raja Amari (Tunisia)
- 13 Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco)
- 14 Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Because cinema, more than any other art, is above all national, a filmmaker is often the mouth-piece of his community. Even if I have chosen to live in France, I cannot forget that part of me which is over there, those founding roots, that lively memory, in spite of exile. Consequently I shall fight for the visibility of my people.
Mahamat Saleh HarounIntroduction
Mahamat Saleh Haroun was born in Chad in 1963. He moved to France and studied first filmmaking at the CLCF in Paris and then journalism at the IUT in Bordeaux. He worked for five years in print journalism and radio before returning to filmmaking, working from a base in Paris (through his company, Les Productions de la Lanterne) and becoming a key figure in the Guilde africaine des réalisateurs et producteurs. In the Guild's first bulletin he defined his (and their) ambitions:
Because a certain spirit of resistance animates us at the heart of the Guild, because we are conscious of belonging to the same community destined to meet the same problems, our group is aware of a responsibility which should guide us towards the light, around these two words: freedom and independence.
From the first Haroun has been a prolific and eclectic filmmaker. His early shorter films alternate between documentary and fiction and are in a number of media: 16mm film – Maral Tanie/La Deuxième épouse (1994, fiction); Beta SP video – Bord'Africa (1995, documentary), Sotigui Kouyaté, un griot moderne (1996, documentary), Un thé au Sahel (1998, fiction); 35mm film – Goï Goï le nain (1995, fiction), B 400 (1997, fiction).
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- African FilmmakingNorth and South of the Sahara, pp. 158 - 166Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2006