Cheikh Tidiane Aw

Cheikh Tidiane Aw
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Film director, Actor, Producer, Screenwriter
Principal country concerned : Column : Theater, Cinema/tv
Senegal

Senegalese TV Professional and filmmaker.

Tidiane AW is a television personality, film director, screenwriter, producer and theater owner.

Cheikh Tidiane AW was born in 1935 in Kébémer, Senegal. He died on May 30, 2009 in Saint-Cloud, near Paris (France) on May 30, 2009, at the age of 74.

First a student at the Institute of Cinematography in Hamburg (Germany), he completed his training in Paris, at the Office de coopération radiophonique (OCORA).
Among the precursors of Senegalese television, he worked for educational television until 1972.

"Tidiane Aw laid his stone, when it was not easy. And he did not compromise. [...] He is part, with Sembène Ousmane and Momar Thiam, of the reduced trio of those left their mark on Senegalese cinema. For him, Aw is the only one who did not give in after the disappearance of SIDEC in the early 1990s. he set up the "Christa" complex where there is a cinema exhibition and a cinema.
Samba Félix Ndiaye, filmmaker (www.aps.sn)

FILMOGRAPHY
1969: Réalités (Ndoep), 35', Black and White, documentary.
1970: For those who know (Serigne Assane), 35', Black&White (Consolation Award at FESPACO in 1972).
1976: For those who know (Serigne Assane), 45', Black&White (extended version).
1973: The Bronze Bracelet, 115', color.
1981: The Certificate, 83', color, wolof.
1983: Primary Health Care, Short Documentary

SOURCE :
www.aps.sn
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidiane_Aw
Paulin S. Vieyra, "Le Cinéma au Sénégal", 1983, ed. OCIC
translated from French and updated by Thierno Dia, on 5 July 2022

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