Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Paulin SOUMANOU VIEYRA ( 1925-1987) was a film maker and historian. At the age of ten he moved from Benin to Senegal. In Paris he shot the first Francophone African film Afrique-sur-Seine (1957). In 1969 he founded the Fédération Panafricaine des Cinéastes.
Filmography
(all short, selection) Afrique-sur-Seine (1957), Une nation est née (1961, doc), Lamb (1963, doc), Birago Diop (1981, doc), N’diongane (1965), Sindiely (1965), L’envers du décor (1981, doc), Iba N’diaye (1982, doc)