Togolese filmmaker, festival director, trainer.

Sometimes credited as | Parfois crédité sous le nom de :
Joel M'Maka TCHÉDRÉ

Joël TCHÉDRÉ (Joël M'Maka TCHÉDRÉ) is a film & TV producer, film & TV director, Festival manager and trainer.

He manages the audiovisual production company Les Films du Siècle. Educated at Stendhal University Grenoble 3 in France, this young filmmaker is highly active in Togo's audiovisual and film industry. He is one of the leading figures of Togo's new generation of filmmakers.
As the author and director of over ten films, his documentary Nanas Benz: The Queens of African Textiles won the Kodjo Ebouclé Grand Prize for Best Film in Competition at the 2014 Clap Ivoire International Festival in Abidjan. The same film also received the African Integration Prize and a Canal+ grant.
His short film PACTE was an official selection at FESPACO 2017 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In 2024, he releases his first feature-length documentary, Cent Douze.

Beyond directing and producing, Joël has been actively training young professionals in the audiovisual sector since his return to Togo. He is the president of the Togolese Association for Digital Mobile Cinema (ATCNA) and the director of the Emergence Films Festival, an annual short film festival held in Lomé since 2014.




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Updated by Thierno DIA, 24 Sep 2025