The African who wanted to fly (Gabon)

The African who wanted to fly

by Samantha Biffot

GABON, France, Belgium - 2016 - 71 MINUTES

synopsis

Today, showing in dozens of kung fu films and behind the camera alongside the Chan brothers, Luc Bendza grew up in a small Gabonese town and became a Master in an art that until then had no African count. . It is the story of a kid who wanted to fly like the Chinese warriors, so passionate that he forced his destiny to join the mythical Shaolin Temple at the age of 15. His epic begins when at 10 years old, he begins intensive kung fu training with his neighborhood friends and shoots his own film in the streets of Koulamoutou ...

Director

Samantha Biffot was born in Gabon in 1985 and grew up between her native country, France and Korea. She studied at the École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle in Paris from 2004 to 2007. She then worked in several production companies in Paris before returning to Gabon in 2010. Laureate of the Escales Documentaires de La Rochelle for "The African Who wanted to fly ", she also won the award for best African series at FESPACO (Burkina Faso) for" The Eye of the City ". She created the Festival International des Courts d'Écoles in 2011 in Libreville

PLUG

PRODUCTION

Princess M. Productions

Neon Red

Tact Production

DIFFUSION

TV Tours Loire Valley

RTBF - Belgian Francophone Radio Television

PARTICIPATION

CNC

IGIS (Gabonese Institute of Image and Sound)

Procirep

Rewards

2017 : Africlap - Festival des Cinémas d'Afrique de Toulouse - Toulouse (France) - Paul Soumanou Vieyra Prize for Best Documentary

2017 : Festival Cinémas d'Afrique - Lausanne (Switzerland) - Selection

2016 : Stopovers Documentaries - La Rochelle (France) - Official selection

2016 : Saint-Louis Documentary Film Festival - Saint Louis (Senegal) - Official Selection - Feature Films

2015 : Documentary stopovers in Libreville - Libreville (Gabon) - Special Jury Prize

2015 : FIFF (Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur) - Namur (Belgium) - Regards du Present Competition