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Président DIA ( Sénégal 2012 )

Color: Documentary, color,54’

Direction: Ousmane William MBAYE

Screenplay: Ousmane William MBAYE

Director of Photography: Ousmane William MBAYE, Stéphane de TRÉBONDS, Jacques PAMART, Xavier VAUTHRIN

Sound: Ousmane William MBAYE, Stéphane de TRÉBONDS, Jacques PAMART, Xavier VAUTHRIN

Music: Amadou DOUKOURÉ

Editing: Laurence ATTALI

Synopsis

December 17, 1962, Mamadou Dia, chairman of Senegal, was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of coup by his friend and companion Leopold Sedar Senghor. Fifty years later, while the 2012 presidential campaign stirred countries around the values of democracy, witnesses and actors of the events of 1962 speak.

Réalisateur

Ousmane William Mbaye studied at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français and the University of Paris VIII Vincennes. He learned all aspects of cinéma then moved to filmmaking in Senegal. From 1990 to 1997, he coordinated the Film Meetings in Dakar (RECIDAK)