Young Guinean filmmaker Jacques Kolie's first con-tact with cinema was in 2006 in Dakar when he joined a film crew as assistant location manager. He collaborated on several films including "La pirogue des hautes terres" by Olivier Langlois. In 2012, Jacques attended a trained in scripting and direct-ing at CinéKap and made his first short film "Les larmes de mon people" in 2016.