Mamounata NIKIÈMA is a director, screenwriter, film critic and producer. After several training courses on the fundamentals of production (2009 and 2010 - Saint-Louis, Senegal), Mamounata Nikièma got involved in production in 2011, by creating the structure Pilumpiku Productions. In the first year, she co-produced two films as part of a collection of ten documentary films (Une journée avec) with other producers from the West African sub-region (Mali, Niger, Senegal), France and Arte television. From 2012 to 2017, she successively produced 5 films including 4 documentaries and a South-South co-production Afrique en Vues (2014) (West and Central Africa) supported by the OIF and a short fiction film supported by the Fonds Image de la Francophonie (OIF), La Lutte Continue (2016) by Marie Laurentine Bayala which has already been to around ten festivals. Graduated from the Master's degree in documentary cinema at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis, Senegal, 2008. She is co-founder of the Africadoc Burkina association. Since April 23, 2022, she has been president of the National Federation of Cinema and Audiovisual for a four-year term.