Bio

Rama THIAW was born in 1978, in Nouakchott. A Mauritanian- Senegalese, she grew up between Senegal and Europe. After a master's degree in international economics at the Sorbonne, she obtained a diploma in cinema at the University of Paris 8 & Paris 3. In 2005, she began working in French production companies before embarking on the production of her own films. She is a screenwriter, director and producer; and lives in Dakar, where she created the production company BOUL FALLÉ IMAGES in 2010. She works as a guest professor in several prestigious universities such as Smith College or Mount Holyoke in the USA. In 2019, she organized the first edition of the “Sabbar Artistiques de Dakar”, a multidisciplinary cultural event dedicated to African and Afro-descendant women. In 2020, she also joined the selection committee for the Panorama section of the Berlinale.

Filmography

• ZION MUSIC
  Director, Scriptwriter, documentary, 90 minutes, post-production stage
  
• LA DISPARITION (THE VANISHING)
  Director, documentary, 90 minutes, pre-production stage
  
• LA VIE EN SPIRALE
  Director, Fiction, 90 minutes, en développement
  Festivals : Le projet a été reçu aux Résidences REALNESS et au Torino ScriptLab 2018. Script consultant, Rāzvan Rādulescu.
  
• THE REVOLUTION WON'T BE TELEVISED
  Réalisatrice et Productrice, Documentary, 110 minutes, 2016
  Awards : Berlinale 2016, Le Prix de la Critique FIPRESCI, Section FORUM, une Mention Spéciale du Prix CALIGARI PREIZ / JCC 2016, Le Grand Prix du Jury
  Festivals : Le film a été sélectionné dans plus de 50 festivals à travers le monde d’Hot Docs à Busan. En passant par le prestigieux MoMa de New York ou encore le BAFICI de Buenos Aires.
  
• BOUL FALLE, LA VOIE DE LA LUTTE (BOUL FALLE, THE WAY OF WRESTlING)
  Director, Documentary, 71 minutes, 2009
  Festivals : Bergamo Films Festival, Festival de Films de Femmes de Créteil, Étonnants Voyageurs St Malo et Brazzaville.