Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Mama Africa

Fanta Régina Nacro 2000 Africa Documentary color 30min English Betacam
For the education of her children, the African mother Antoinette tries to merchandise. It is against her husband's will, since it is unnecessary for girls to have education in Africa. Hoe does the African mother confront the opposition and succeed in her dealings?

Director

Fanta Régina Nacro

Fanta Régina Nacro, cineaste of African New Wave, her films "PUK NINI" and "UN CERTAIN MATIN" win prizes in the films festivals in San Francisco, Montreal and Tunis. She specializes in using parodies to present the conventional ideas of sex and gender in African tradition and the inter-relationship between the traditional and the contemporary.

Fanta Régina Nacro

Director: Fanta Régina Nacro

Producer: Simon Bright, Claire Lajoumard and Julie Goldman

Cinematographer: Michael Alan Brierley, Robert Humphreys and Nara Keo Kosal

Editor: Nano Chesnais, Jackie Le Cordeur and Liz Webber

Cast: Rehane Abrahams, Damien Chamley, Ivan D. Lucas

Director: Fanta Régina Nacro

Producer: Simon Bright, Claire Lajoumard and Julie Goldman

Cinematographer: Michael Alan Brierley, Robert Humphreys and Nara Keo Kosal

Editor: Nano Chesnais, Jackie Le Cordeur and Liz Webber

Cast: Rehane Abrahams, Damien Chamley, Ivan D. Lucas