Angèle Diabang Brener

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

Angèle Diabang Brener
Born1979
Dakar, Senegal
Occupationscreenwriter, director and film producer

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.[1]

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".[1][2] She runs the production company Karoninka which is credited with over a dozen films.[1]

Filmography
  • 2005 : Mon beau sourire[3][4]
  • 2007 : L’Homme est le remède de l’homme, with Ousseynou Ndiaye and El Hadji Mamadou "Leuz" Niang
  • 2007 : Le Revers de l'exil[2]
  • 2007 : Sénégalaises et Islam
  • 2008 : Yandé Codou, la griotte de Senghor[5]
  • 2014 : Congo, un médecin pour sauver les femmes[1] 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)

See also

References
  1. "Une cinéaste sénégalaise filme des Congolaises victimes de violences" (in French). Sabine Cessou, Rfi.fr, 21 November 2014 (fr)
  2. "Biography of Angèle Diabang on Africiné.org" (in French).
  3. (in French)Sénégalaises et islam Archived June 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine on Jeune Afrique
  4. (in French)Mon beau sourire Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine on Africultures.com
  5. Le Quotidien, Horizon Angèle Diabang, réalisatrice, productrice : « Etre cinéaste, ce n'est pas capter un moment et le montrer sur YouTube » (23 February 2019) (Retrieved 2 June 2019)

Further reading
  • Françoise Pfaff, 'Angèle Diabang Brener', in À l'écoute du cinéma sénégalais, Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris, 2010, pp. 109–119, ISBN 9782296103528



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