Mohamed Camara (film director)

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Mohamed Camara

Born 1959
Conakry, Guinea
Other name(s) Mohamed Kamara
Occupation film director, actor
Years active 1986–present

Mohamed Camara (b. 1959 in Conakry) is a Guinean film director and actor based in France.[1] He studied at the Atelier Blanche Salant in Paris.[2] He has explored controversial topics in his films such as incest (Denko), child suicide (Minka) and homosexuality (Dakan).[3] 1997's Dakan has been called the first film on homosexuality by a Black African.[4]

Camara has won several international awards for his films, including the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Foreign Narrative Feature at L.A. Outfest for Dakan.[5][6]

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[edit] Filmography

[edit] Actor

[edit] Director

  • 1993: Denko
  • 1994: Minka
  • 1997: Dakan

[edit] References

  1. ^ Epprecht, Marc (2007-04-12). "African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the late Nineteenth Century to the Present". Postcolonial Text 3 (1). 
  2. ^ Association des trois mondes (2000). Les cinémas d'Afrique: dictionnaire (in French). KARTHALA Editions, 116. ISBN 2845860609. 
  3. ^ Armes, Roy. African filmmaking: north and south of the Sahara. Indiana University Press, 152. ISBN 0253348536. 
  4. ^ Spaas, Lieve (2000). The Francophone Film: A Struggle for Identity. Manchester University Press, 225. ISBN 0719058619. 
  5. ^ “Dakan”, Variety, <http://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/135365/Dakan.html?dataSet=1>. Retrieved on 15 March 2008 
  6. ^ Awards for Mohamed Camara. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2008-03-15.

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