Sembene!
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2010
Logline
Sembene! celebrates a revolutionary artist who recognized that cultural survival depends on the reclamation of story. His life is recounted by a fictional, animated narrator - a wise old man - to a courtyard of youth, revealing the mechanics of the modern media inspiring the revival of culturally rich storytelling.
Samba Gadjigo
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Samba Gadjigo wrote the biography Ousmane Sembene: Une Conscience Africane (Homnispheres, Paris, 2007), which covers Sembene's life from his birth in 1923 to the writing of his first book in 1956.
Jason Silverman
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Jason Silverman produced the award-winning films Shameless (Great Plains Film Festival) and Olympia (SXSW, Slamdance, Sundance Channel).