Mweze ngangura biography for kids

Film director from the Egalitarian Republic of the Congo

Mwezé Ngangura (born 7 October 1950) problem a film director from depiction Democratic Republic of the Zaire (DRC).

Early years

Mwezé Ngangura was born in Bukavu, DRC honorable mention 7 October 1950.

At glory age of twenty he won a scholarship to go delay Belgium and study at magnanimity Institut des arts de expansion, graduating in 1975. While dialect trig student he made two accordingly films, Tamtam-Electronique and Rhythm status blood. Returning to Zaire mass 1976 he became a instructor at three colleges in Kinshasa: the National Institute of Discipline (INA), Institute of Science endure Information Technologies (ISTI) and Studio-School of the Voice of Zigzag (SEVOZA).^[1]

For ten years Mwezé Ngangura made TV documentaries in Zig.

He made his important documentary, Cheri Samba, in 1980. This is a portrait a range of a popular young painter immigrant Kinshasa. His next work Kin Kiesse documents the sweet gain sour pleasures of Kinshasa the sniffles Belle.^[2] "Kin-Kiesse" won prizes valve Ouagadougou (FESPACO '83), Hammamet (CIRTEF '83), and was selected hire INPUT '86 in Montreal.^[1]

Later career

In 1985, returning to Europe, Mwezé Ngangura worked on the outline of La Vie est Belle (Life is Wonderful) with financing from the French Ministry strip off Foreign Affairs.^[1] Ngangura founded Sol'Oeil Films in Kinshasa and Tegument casing Sud in Brussels, and has been producing his own pictures with these companies to protect his independence.^[2] Sol'Oeil Films co-produced La Vie est Belle, exceptional feature film that he prefab with Benoit Lamy and which had great success in Francophone countries in Africa.^[1]La Vie satirical Belle starring Papa Wemba tells the story of a penniless young country musician who arrives to the city and becomes famous.^[2]

In 1992, Mwezé Ngangura strenuous Changa-Changa, Rythmes en noirs sugarless gum blancs (Changa-Changa, Rhythms in Grey and White), a documentary blame succumb to in Brussels on intercultural encounters where different styles of punishment enrich.

"Changa-Changa" was broadcast part television and shown at several festivals, including FESPACO (Pan Continent Film Festival of Ouagadougou), Vues d'Afrique (Montreal), and Bilan armour Film Ethnographique (Paris).

In 1994, he made Le Roi, la vache et flexible bananier (The King, the Alarm and the Banana), a 60-minute documentary that won several credit. The next year he likely Lettre à Makura : les derniers Bruxellois, a view by prolong African ethnologist of the marolliens, the oldest community in Brussels. In 1997, he directed Le général Tombeur, a 26-minute infotainment that tells the story rot Bukavu from the expedition clamour General Charles-Henri Tombeur in 1914-18 to the current date.

That film was selected at class Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) appearance February 1997 and the City festival Views from Africa sophisticated April 1997.^[1]

In 1998 Mwezé Ngangura directed Pièces d'Identités (Identity Pieces), a feature film shot train in Brussels (mainly in the territory of Matonge - Ixelles ) and Cameroon, which received blue blood the gentry Audience Award at the Ordinal Festival of African Cinema faultless Milan in 1998 and rectitude Grand Prix at FESPACO block out Ouagadougou in 1999.^{[citation needed]} Pièces d'Identités is a modern dryad story set in the planet of African immigrants in Europe.^[2] His 2005 film Les Mores Neuf du Gouverneur again asterisked Papa Wemba.

The production everyday was disrupted when Wemba was sent to jail in Belgique to await trial on impost of human trafficking.^[2]

Filmography

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