Joseph Gaï Ramaka
Joseph Gaï Ramaka, 2010
Born9 November 1952
Saint-Louis, Senegal
NationalitySenegalese
Occupation(s)film director, screen writer, film producer
Known forAinsi soit-il ! (1997), Karmen Geï (2001), Et si Latif avait raison ! (2006)

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][5]

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.[3] 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.[1][2] His main feature-length films are Nitt... N'Doxx / Les Faiseurs de pluie, an adaptation of a story by Prosper Merimée,[6] Karmen Geï (2000), an African version of the opera Carmen,[7] 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.[8]

Filmography

Gaï Ramaka's films include:[2][3]

YearFilmGenreRoleDuration
1985Baaw-Naan / Rites de pluieShort, documentaryScreen writer, director25 min (m)
1986La Musique lyrique PeulShort, documentaryDirector10 m
1986Portrait d’un mannequinShort, documentaryDirector10 m
1988Niiwam
by Clarence Thomas Delgado		FeatureProducer88 m
1989Nitt... N'Doxx / Les Faiseurs de pluie[9]DocumentaryScreen writer, director85 m
1991Boxulmaleen !! (L'An fer)
by William Ousmane Mbaye and Amet Diallo		FeatureProducer30 m
1996Idylle
by Dominique Camara		Short, dramaCoproducer14 m
1997Ainsi soit-il ! (So Be It), episode of Africa Dreaming[10]FictionScreen writer, codirector, coproducer33 m
1997Baby SisterFiction pilotDirector12 m
1998Demain je brûle / Ghoudwa Nahrek
by Mohamed Ben Smaïl		DramaProducer95 m
2001Karmen Geï[11]Fiction, musicScreen writer, director85 or 90 m
2006Et si Latif avait raison !
(And what if Latif were right!)[5]		DocumentaryScreen writer, director, producer95 m
2007Jaxaay Plan![12]DocumentaryScreen writer, director26 m
2009It's my man ![13]DocumentaryDirector65 m
2020Mbas mi (The plague by Albert Camus)Short, dramaDirector, producer8 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[14] 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.[2] Best Film Prize, Festival Vues d'Afrique Montreal 1998.[1]
  • Karmen Geï (2001) - Best Feature Award of the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF Los Angeles) 2006.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Joseph Gaï Ramaka. Biography. Senegal". africanfilmny.org. African Film Festival New York. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Joseph Gaï Ramaka, Sénégal". africultures.com (in French). Africultures. Les mondes en relation. 2019. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "Joseph Gaye Ramaka Film director Producer Screenwriter". africine.org. Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC). 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  4. ↑ Joseph Gaï Ramaka at IMDb
  5. 1 2 "Et si Latif avait raison !". film-documentaire.fr (in French). Film Doc. Film.documentaire.fr. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  6. ↑ Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 69. ISBN 0-253-35116-2.
  7. ↑ Green-Simms, Lindsey (2019). "Chapter 9 "Outcast Orders" and the Imagining of a Queer African Cinema. A Fugitive, Afro-Jazz Reading of Karmen Geï". In Harrow, Kenneth W.; Garritano, Carmela (eds.). A companion to African cinema. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 194–215. ISBN 9781119100317.
  8. ↑ Martin, Michael T.; Gaï Ramaka, Joseph (2009). "I Am Not a Filmmaker Engagé. I Am an Ordinary Citizen Engagé". Research in African Literatures. 40 (3): 206–219. JSTOR 40468145.
  9. ↑ An adaptation of a story by Prosper Merimée
  10. ↑ Based on a play The Strong Breed by Wolé Soyinka
  11. ↑ Gaï Ramaka's adaptation of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet
  12. ↑ Krueger Enz, Molly (2016). "Ramaka Joseph Gaï , director. Plan Jaxaay! 2007. 25 minutes. Wolof with English and French subtitles. Senegal. Observatoire Audiovisuel sur les Libertés". African Studies Review. 59 (201609): 315. doi:10.1017/asr.2016.72. OCLC 8271751653.
  13. ↑ "IT'S MY MAN !". seneplus.com (in French). Retrieved 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..
  14. ↑ Rouch, Jean (1985). "Quatrième Bilan du Film Ethnographique - Palmarès" (pdf). comitedufilmethnographique.com (in French). Comité du Film Ethnographique, Musée de l'Homme, Paris. Retrieved 24 August 2023.

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