Joseph Gaï Ramaka Explained
Joseph Gaï Ramaka (Jo(e) Gaï Ramaka/Joseph Gaye Ramaka, born 9 November 1952 in Saint Louis, Senegal) is a Senegalese film director, screen writer and film producer.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Biography
Gaï Ramaka studied visual anthropology at the Paris School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and film studies at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies, IDHEC) of Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis. In 1990 he founded the French production and distribution company Les Ateliers de l’Arche, with its Espace Bell’Arte branch in Dakar, Senegal since 1999, a screening facility with Dolby Stereo, helping to create Arche Studios with computerized lighting.His main feature-length films are Nitt... N'Doxx / Les Faiseurs de pluie, an adaptation of a story by Prosper Merimée,[5] Karmen Geï (2000), an African version of the opera Carmen,[6] and Et si Latif avait raison ! (And what if Latif were right!, 2006), a political documentary.In 2007 he founded the New Orleans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival Project (NOAFEST) and in 2013, he created Gorée Island Cinema, a platform for collaborative cinematography, which hosted Gorée Cinema Festival since 2015.Gaï Ramaka currently lives in New Orleans.[7]
Filmography
Gaï Ramaka's films include:
Year | Film | Genre | Role | Duration |
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1985 | Baaw-Naan / Rites de pluie | Short, documentary | Screen writer, director | 25 min (m) |
1986 | La Musique lyrique Peul | Short, documentary | Director | 10 m |
1986 | Portrait d’un mannequin | Short, documentary | Director | 10 m |
1988 | | Feature | Producer | 88 m |
1989 | Nitt... N'Doxx / Les Faiseurs de pluie[8] | Documentary | Screen writer, director | 85 m |
1991 | Boxulmaleen ! | (L'An fer) by William Ousmane Mbaye and Amet Diallo | Feature | Producer | 30 m |
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1996 | Idylle by Dominique Camara | Short, drama | Coproducer | 14 m |
1997 | Ainsi soit-il ! (So Be It), episode of Africa Dreaming[9] | Fiction | Screen writer, codirector, coproducer | 33 m |
1997 | Baby Sister | Fiction pilot | Director | 12 m |
1998 | Demain je brûle / Ghoudwa Nahrek by Mohamed Ben Smaïl | Drama | Producer | 95 m |
2001 | Karmen Geï[10] | Fiction, music | Screen writer, director | 85 or 90 m |
2006 | Et si Latif avait raison ! (And what if Latif were right | ) | Documentary | Screen writer, director, producer | 95 m |
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2007 | Jaxaay Plan![11] | Documentary | Screen writer, director | 26 m |
2009 | It's my man ![12] | Documentary | Director | 65 m |
2020 | Mbas mi (The plague by Albert Camus) | Short, drama | Director, producer | 8 m | |
Awards
Gaï Ramaka won various awards, such as:
- Baaw-Naan/Rites de pluie (1985) - Masque d'Or for documentary at the Deuxième Festival International du Film sur le Carnaval et la Fête à Nice. Special mention by the jury at the Quatrième Festival International Jean Rouch/Bilan du Film Ethnographique[13] in Paris. First Prize for shorts of the Second Festival of Perugia, Italy.
- Ainsi-soit-il (1997) - Silver Lion Award, First Prize Corto-cortissimo, 54th Venice Film Festival 1997. Best Film Prize, Festival Vues d'Afrique Montreal 1998.
- Karmen Geï (2001) - Best Feature Award of the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF Los Angeles) 2006.
Literature
- Book: Adesokan
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. Akin Adesokan. 6. 'The Invisible Government of the Powerful'. Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Cinema of Power. A companion to African cinema. Kenneth W. . Harrow . Carmela . Garritano. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. . Hoboken, NJ. 2019. Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas. 136-154. 9781119100317.
See also
External links
Videos:
- . Video duration 4m 11s. Uploader Joseph Gaï Ramaka. 2012. Accessed on 24 August 2023.
- . Video duration 39m 23s. Uploader African Film Festival, Inc. 2021. Accessed on 24 August 2023.
Interview:
Notes and References
- Web site: Joseph Gaï Ramaka. Biography. Senegal. africanfilmny.org . 24 August 2023 . African Film Festival New York .
- Web site: Joseph Gaï Ramaka, Sénégal . 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220928071040/https://africultures.com/personnes/?no=3769 . 28 September 2022 . 24 August 2023 . French . africultures.com . Africultures. Les mondes en relation.
- Web site: Joseph Gaye Ramaka Film director Producer Screenwriter . Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC) . africine.org . 24 August 2023 . 2020.
- Web site: Et si Latif avait raison ! . 24 August 2023 . French . film-documentaire.fr . Film Doc. Film.documentaire.fr.
- Book: Armes, Roy . Dictionary of African Filmmakers . Indiana University Press . 2008 . 0-253-35116-2 . 69 . Bloomington and Indianapolis.
- Book: Green-Simms, Lindsey . Kenneth W. . Harrow . Carmela . Garritano . A companion to African cinema . Chapter 9 "Outcast Orders" and the Imagining of a Queer African Cinema. A Fugitive, Afro-Jazz Reading of Karmen Geï . 2019 . 194–215 . Hoboken, NJ . John Wiley & Sons, Inc. . 9781119100317.
- 40468145 . Michael T. . Martin . Joseph . Gaï Ramaka . I Am Not a Filmmaker Engagé. I Am an Ordinary Citizen Engagé . 40 . 3 . Research in African Literatures . 2009 . 206–219.
- An adaptation of a story by Prosper Merimée
- Based on a play The Strong Breed by Wolé Soyinka
- Gaï Ramaka's adaptation of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet
- Ramaka Joseph Gaï, director. Plan Jaxaay! 2007. 25 minutes. Wolof with English and French subtitles. Senegal. Observatoire Audiovisuel sur les Libertés. . 2016 . African Studies Review . 59 . 201609 . 315 . 8271751653 . Molly . Krueger Enz . 10.1017/asr.2016.72.
- Web site: IT’S MY MAN ! . seneplus.com . French . 24 August 2023 . Eileen Julien Sy raconte Kalidou Sy, l’ancien directeur de l’École nationale des Beaux Arts, décédé en 2005 – Un film-documentaire de Joseph Gaï Ramaka...
- Web site: fr . Jean . Rouch . Quatrième Bilan du Film Ethnographique - Palmarès . 1985 . pdf . 24 August 2023 . comitedufilmethnographique.com . Comité du Film Ethnographique, Musée de l'Homme, Paris.