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Angèle Diabang Brener

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Born
  
1979
Dakar, Senegal

Occupation
  
screenwriter, director and film producer

Movies
  
My Beautiful Smile, Yandé Codou, la griotte de Senghor

Angèle Diabang Brener is a screenwriter, director and film producer from Senegal.

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Early life and education

Angèle Diabang Brener was born in Dakar in 1979. Her training and education in film making took place in Dakar at the Média Centre de Dakar, subsequently at the French state film school La Fémis in Paris, and then at the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Career

She began her career as a film editor then in 2005 she directed her first film, a documentary on the beauty standards for Senegalese women entitled "Mon beau sourire". She runs the production company Karoninka which is credited with over a dozen films.

Filmography

  • 2005 : Mon beau sourire
  • 2007 : L’Homme est le remède de l’homme, with Ousseynou Ndiaye and El Hadji Mamadou "Leuz" Niang
  • 2007 : Le Revers de l'exil
  • 2007 : Sénégalaises et Islam
  • 2008 : Yandé Codou, la griotte de Senghor
  • 2014 : Congo, un médecin pour sauver les femmes A documentary on the work of Dr Denis Mukwege.

    • Awards

  • For Sénégalaises et Islam
  • 2007. Jury Prize at Festival Images citoyennes (Liège, Belgium)
  • 2007. Mention Speciale at the Apt Festival of African Films Festival (Apt, France)

    • References

    Angèle Diabang Brener Wikipedia
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