Frédérique Cifuentes

  • Frédérique Cifuentes
Film director, Photographer, Producer, Journalist
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, Photo, Media

Born in France in 1973.

Frédérique Cifuentes is an independent documentary filmmaker. She also works as a freelance photojournalist and project manager. She lives between London and Paris where she divides her time between working on assignments for commercial clients and personal projects.

She holds a masters degree in Anthropology from the university of Paris-X Nanterre and a Master Degree in photojournalism from the London College of Printing. She started her work in Sudan in 2002 and has since produced several photo-stories on the subject of Sudanese society, published and exhibited worldwide.

It was through photography that she came to know Gadalla Gubara and in this way became a filmmaker - in the African style - and directed and produced her first documentary film, "Cinema In Sudan" in 2008.

Filmography:
Cinema in Sudan: Conversations with Gadalla Gubara (Doc 52 minutes - 2008)
Sudan Kids Vision (Doc 12 minutes - French Embassy Khartoum - 2008)
PhotoSudan Network, first independent photography agency in Sudan (Doc 10 minutes - UNESCO - 2008)

Festivals:
2009
Fida doc'Souss, Agadir, Morocco
Festival International du Film Documentaire Fes, Morocco
FESPACO, Burkina Faso

2008
Dubai Film Market
Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, Tunisie 2008
The Kenya International Film Festival, 2008

Organizations

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Partners

  • 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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