Anne-Laure Folly

Anne-Laure Folly

Biography

Anne-Laure Folly, from Togo, is one of Africa`s few female filmmakers, yet one of its finest. After winning the Silver Medal at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in 1994 for her documentary Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts, she established herself as a documentarist with a vision for representing African issues from across the continent: her first film revealed women from Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal speaking about the joys and difficulties of their lives; her latest film "Sarah Maldoror ou La Nostalgie de l`Utopie (1998)" is a tribute to another `African` female filmmaker, Sarah Maldoror, who attended the Second Cambridge African film festival in 2003 to show her classic film Sambizanga (1972).

Filmography

Femmes du Niger (1993): Direction

Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts (1993): Direction

Les Oubliées (1997): Screenplay, Direction

Sarah Maldoror ou la Nostalgie de l’Utopie (1998): Screenplay, Direction