Annette Kouamba Matondo

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Annette Kouamba Matondo
NationalityCongolese
Occupationfilm director . journalist . blogger

Annette Kouamba Matondo is a film director, journalist and blogger from the Republic of the Congo. [1] [2]

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Career

Matondo is editor of La Nouvelle République, a newspaper based in Brazzaville. [3] Her first film, On n'oublie pas, on pardonne, commemorates the disappearance of 353 refugees in 1999 from the port in Brazzaville. [3] [4] In it the actress Sylvie Dyclos-Pomos writes a play based on the event. [5] The title uses a phrase associated with Nelson Mandela. [5] The film was described by film-maker Beti Ellerson as "cathartic". [6] Her second film, De quoi avons-nous peur? raises awareness of censorship and self-censorship in journalism. [3] In a third film, Au-delà de la souffrance, she draws attention to the explosion on 4 March 2012 at an ammunition depot in Mpila. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Annette Kouamba Matondo". www.luxorafricanfilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  2. ↑ "La renaissance du cinéma brazzavillois". VOA (in French). Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Congo : Annette Kouamba Matondo, caméra au poing – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 2014-07-30. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  4. ↑ "Congo refugees murder trial opens". 2005-07-21. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  5. 1 2 Barlet, Olivier (2016-08-01). Contemporary African Cinema. MSU Press. ISBN   978-1-62895-270-4.
  6. ↑ Ellerson, Beti (2018). "Onscreen Narratives, Offscreen Lives: African Women Inscribing the Self" . Black Camera. 9 (2): 460–476. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.9.2.29. ISSN   1536-3155. JSTOR   10.2979/blackcamera.9.2.29. S2CID   194986880.
  7. ↑ "Personnes | Africultures : Kouamba Matondo Annette". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  8. ↑ "Portrait: Annette Kouamba-Matondo, réalisatrice (Congo-Brazzaville) | adiac-congo.com : toute l'actualité du Bassin du Congo". www.adiac-congo.com. Retrieved 2021-09-20.


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