Christian Thiam

  • Christian Thiam
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Film director, Producer, Teacher, Screenwriter
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv

Senegalese Filmmaker.

Christian THIAM is a film director and producer.

Born in Senegal, Christian Thiam attended graduate school first in Houston (Texas, USA) and then at New York University - NYU (USA). While still a student, he did his first internship in the film industry with director Spike Lee on the set of the comedy "Freak".

In 2009, he directed his first documentary, "Samba Kane: Life in Prison". This documentary film is about a Senegalese expatriate imprisoned for life in Denver (Colorado, USA).

In 2010, he made a second documentary entitled "ANOCI: les dessous d'un sommet".

In 2014, he directed the documentary "Casa Di Mansa", which chronicles the conflict in Casamance.

Back from the United States since 2013, Christian Thiam in addition to teaching Directing at the Supimax Institute in Dakar, is also a Research Professor at the UVS (Virtual University of Senegal) and a Visiting Professor at the UGB (Gaston Berger University) in Digital Audiovisual Production.
Meanwhile Christian Thiam being certified by Google on YouTube Audience Building, regularly gives professional training seminars organized by Google, in the West African Sub-Region, to help professionals develop a strategy on the YouTube platform.

"Mami Watta" (2021) is his first feature-length fiction.


Source : FFA 2021
www.filmsfemmesafrique.com/hors-competition-longs-metrages
Translated from French and updated by Thierno Dia, on June 1st, 2022

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  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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