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Ousmane Sembène (French: [usman sɑ̃bɛn]; 1 January 1923 or 8 January 1923 [1] – 9 June 2007), was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and he has often been called the "father of African film".
Jan 31, 2023 · As his official biographer Samba Gadjigo has said, Sembène “made films by any means necessary”. This takes on a specific significance within African societies emerging from colonialism from the...
- Imruh Bakari
Having blazed a trail for African filmmakers to tell their own stories on-screen, Senegalese auteur Ousmane Sembène took his career-long project—to unlock cinema’s potential as a vehicle for social change—in increasingly urgent and provocative directions in the 1970s.
For many years, the Senegalese novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007) refused to release his films on video and DVD. Thus, opportunities to see films by the "father of African cinema" have been few and far between, compounded by the racism that relegates pioneering Black and African directors to history's margins.
Nov 5, 2015 · He effectively created an African film industry out of nothing: In 1963, with a used 16mm camera and leftover film stock sent by friends from Europe, he made a short called Borom Sarret (The...
- Movie Critic
Jun 11, 2018 · With an impressive list of titles in the realms of both literature and film, it is easy to see why the late Ousmane Sembène, from Senegal, is a mainstay in the pantheon of great African artists. His oeuvre consists of seven novels, a short story collection and eleven films made over a period spanning close to half a century- you would be hard ...
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May 21, 2024 · The three features he made in this decade— Emitaï (1971), Xala (1975), and Ceddo (1977)—represent the apex of his politically robust and aesthetically virtuosic filmography.
