Dieudo Hamadi

He studied Medicine. He then attended several documentary workshops. He is author of two short documentaries, Ladies in Waiting and Zero Tolerance, that caught the attention of several international festivals. He then directed four feature length documentary films that gave him worldwide recognition: Atalaku (2013), National Diploma (2014), Mama Colonel (2017) and Kinshasa Makambo (2018). In 2015, he created Kiripifilms, his own production company. In 2018 he received the True Vision Award at True/False (USA), and in 2019 he has been attributed the McMillan-Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking by the Film Study Center of Harvard University. His film Downstream to Kinshasa was part of Cannes official selection in 2020.

Festival de Cine de Sevilla