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Filmmaker · Senegal

Momar Thiam

Died in 2014

Momar Thiam was born in 1929 and was at first a photographer before moving behind the camera in 1963. He is counted among the first generation of filmmakers of his country, with Paulin Soumanou Vieyra and Ousmane Sembène, and brought to the screen texts by Birago Diop and Ousmane Socé. A feature film of 1974 about the hemp trade broke box-office records in Senegal. From 1987 to 1992 he chaired the association of Senegalese filmmakers and defended to the end a project for a museum of African cinema. He died at home, in Dakar, in August 2014.

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