Rwandan female scriptwriter and Film director

Born in Kigali (Rwanda), in 1987, Marie-Clementine DUSABEJAMBO is a female scriptwriter and Film director. "LYIZA" (2012) is her first short movie. Her third short film "A Place for Myself" (2016) World Premiered at Zanzibar FilmFest and won there 3 Awards. Both "LYIZA" and "A Place for Myself" won a Tanit bronze in Carthage Film Festival, in 2012 and 2016. Her fourth short film "Icyasha / Étiquette" (2018) won the
Golden Zébu for Panafrican Short (Zébu d'or panafricain fiction), at Rencontres du Film Court in Madagascar - RFC 2019.
Based is Kigali (Rwanda), she is an Engineer in electronics and telecommunication by training.

Born in Rwanda, Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo's journey as a filmmaker started in 2008, when she joined a group of young filmmakers in her neighborhood in Almond Tree Films. In 2010, she responded to a call-out for a script competition by the Tribeca Film Institute, which she won. This victory enabled her to make her first short film, LYIZA, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011 and won a Bronze Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival in 2012. Clementine worked as a researcher for "Why We Hate?", a documentary series by Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney. Her short films have been presented and awarded at several festivals, including the Carthage Film Festival, where she won the Tanit de Bronze in 2012 and 2018 in Carthage. Her first feature film, Ben'Imana, has been officially selected to screen in Cannes 2026 - Un Certain Regard.

Source :
JCC 2012 - www.jccarthage.com/eng/films-co_detail.php?id_film=54
JCC 2016 - http://jcctunisie.org/eng/films-detail-real.php?id_film=33
Updated by Thierno I. Dia, on 7 May 2019.

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ولدت ماري كليمنتين دوزابيجمبو في كيغالي برواندا وهي مهندسة في الاكترونيك والاتصالات. ويعدّ"لييزا" شريطها الأوّل

ماري كلامونتين دوزادجامبو (Marie-Clémentine DUSAJAMBO)مؤلفة ومخرجة، تحصلت على شهادة مهندسة في الالكترونيات والاتصالات في جامعة رواندا. "مكان لي" (A place for my self) هو ثالث فيلم قصير لها

Sources :
JCC 2012 - www.jccarthage.com/ar/films-co_detail.php?id_film=54
JCC 2016 - http://jcctunisie.org/ar/films-detail-real.php?id_film=33