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Senegal

Filmmakers · Senegal

Mansour Sora Wade and David Achkar

Mansour Sora Wade was born in 1952 in Dakar, into a Lebou family. He studied cinema at the University of Paris, at Paris VIII, then from 1977 to 1985 headed the audiovisual archives of the Ministry of Culture, while making his first films for television. He directed his first short film in 1983, won a prize in Burkina Faso in 1993 for another, and in 2002 received the Tanit d'Or at the Carthage Film Festival for a film that won seven prizes around the world.

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