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Filmmaker · Senegal

Cheikh Tidiane Aw

Died in 2009

Cheikh Tidiane Aw was born in 1935 in Kébémer, in the Louga region. He studied cinema at the film institute in Hamburg, then completed his training in Paris, at the Office de coopération radiophonique. Back home, he worked mainly for educational television, one of the forerunners of Senegalese television, until 1972. An actor, screenwriter, director and producer, he also ran a cinema at the Patte d'Oie, in Dakar. He died in Paris on 30 May 2009.

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