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Filmmaker · Niger

Moustapha Diop

Moustapha Diop was born in 1945 in Cotonou, Benin, and studied in Mali, Niger and France. Enrolled in modern literature at Abidjan and then at Ouagadougou, he discovered cinema through Jean Rouch, who gave him a role in Petit à petit in 1971, then from 1975 to 1978 attended the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français, where he obtained two diplomas, in directing and editing. He was a director at Nigerien television from 1979 to 1984. After a last feature film in 1990, he founded several private newspapers and was secretary general of the association of Niger's filmmakers.

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