Issa Serge Coelo
Issa Serge Coelo was born in Biltine, Chad, he studied history in Paris and film at the École supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle (ÉSRA). He then worked as a cameraman at Métropole Télévision, France 3, TV5MONDE and CFI before creating the 1994 short film Un taxi pour Aouzou. The film was well-received, being nominated for a 1997 César Award in the category Best Short Film - Fiction.
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- Name
- Issa Serge Coelo
- Birthplace
- Biltine, Chad
- Education
- École supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle
- Occupation
- Film director
- Born
- 1967 · Biltine.
- Nationality
- Chad
- Languages
- Arabic · French
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Issa Serge Coelo was born in Biltine, Chad, he studied history in Paris and film at the École supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle (ÉSRA). He then worked as a cameraman at Métropole Télévision, France 3, TV5MONDE and CFI before creating the 1994 short film Un taxi pour Aouzou. The film was well-received, being nominated for a 1997 César Award in the category Best Short Film - Fiction.
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This was followed by the feature films Daresalam (2000) and Tartina City (2006). He also portrayed himself in the 1999 film Bye Bye Africa, which was directed by Chad's other prominent director Mahamat Saleh Haroun.
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• Name — Issa Serge Coelo • Birthplace — Biltine, Chad • Education — École supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle • Occupation — Film director • Notable Works — Tartina City
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- 1.Stéphanie Dongmo: Issa Serge Coelo: „La première salle francophone en Afrique subsaharienne à utiliser la 3D“. imagesfrancophones.org, 2014; abgerufen am 7. Juni 2022.
- 2.Issa Serge Coelo auf africultures.com
- 3.„Je n’en avais ni la capacité ni l’experience.“ Jean-Pierre Garcia, Mathieu Krim: Entretien avec Issa Serge Coelo. In: Le film africain, Nr. 20, Mai 1995, S. 14.
- 4.„J’ai monté l’équipe en partie, j’ai fait le casting mais j’ai fait de mauvais choix, aussi bien dans la production que dans l’ambition du film. Il était trop fort pour moi, le sujet demandait quelqu’un de beaucoup plus expérimenté.“ Stéphanie Dongmo: Issa Serge Coelo: „La première salle francophone en Afrique subsaharienne à utiliser la 3D“. imagesfrancophones.org, 2014; abgerufen am 7. Juni 2022.
- 5.Matthias Turcaud: Issa Serge Coelo, pilier du cinéma tchadien. africavivre.com, 2017, abgerufen am 7. Juni 2022.
- 6.Priscille Lafitte: „Les artistes sont encore mal vus au Tchad“. france24.com, 24. Mai 2010.
- 7.„Je ne fais plus de production, je n’ai plus le temps de penser à des films.“ Stéphanie Dongmo: Issa Serge Coelo: „La première salle francophone en Afrique subsaharienne à utiliser la 3D“. imagesfrancophones.org, 2014; abgerufen am 7. Juni 2022.
- 8.Stanyslas Asnan: Tchad: La salle de cinéma devenue bureau politique. africaradio.com, 8. März 2022.
- 9.Tchad: 8 films qui parlent de la famille au programme du festival du cinéma Euro-africain. tchadinfos.com, 22. November 2016.
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