Joseph Gaï Ramaka

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Joseph Gaï Ramaka
Joseph Gaï Ramaka, 2010
Born9 November 1952
Saint-Louis, Senegal
NationalitySenegalese
Occupation(s)film director, screen writer, film producer
Known forAinsi soit-il ! (1997), Karmen Geï (2001), Et si Latif avait raison ! (2006)

Joseph Gaï Ramaka (Jo(e) Gaï Ramaka/Joseph Gaye Ramaka, born 9 November 1952 in Saint Louis, Senegal) is a Senegalese film director, screen writer and film producer.[1][2][3][4][5]

Biography[edit]

Gaï Ramaka studied visual anthropology at the Paris School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and film studies at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies, IDHEC) of Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis.[3] In 1990 he founded the French production and distribution company Les Ateliers de l’Arche, with its Espace Bell’Arte branch in Dakar, Senegal since 1999, a screening facility with Dolby Stereo, helping to create Arche Studios with computerized lighting.[1][2] His main feature-length films are Nitt... N'Doxx / Les Faiseurs de pluie, an adaptation of a story by Prosper Merimée,[6] Karmen Geï (2000), an African version of the opera Carmen,[7] and Et si Latif avait raison ! (And what if Latif were right!, 2006), a political documentary. In 2007 he founded the New Orleans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival Project (NOAFEST) and in 2013, he created Gorée Island Cinema, a platform for collaborative cinematography, which hosted Gorée Cinema Festival since 2015. Gaï Ramaka currently lives in New Orleans.[8]

Filmography[edit]

Gaï Ramaka's films include:[2][3]

Year Film Genre Role Duration
1985 Baaw-Naan / Rites de pluie Short, documentary Screen writer, director 25 min (m)
1986 La Musique lyrique Peul Short, documentary Director 10 m
1986 Portrait d’un mannequin Short, documentary Director 10 m
1988 Niiwam
by Clarence Thomas Delgado		 Feature Producer 88 m
1989 Nitt... N'Doxx / Les Faiseurs de pluie[9] Documentary Screen writer, director 85 m
1991 Boxulmaleen !! (L'An fer)
by William Ousmane Mbaye and Amet Diallo		 Feature Producer 30 m
1996 Idylle
by Dominique Camara		 Short, drama Coproducer 14 m
1997 Ainsi soit-il ! (So Be It), episode of Africa Dreaming[10] Fiction Screen writer, codirector, coproducer 33 m
1997 Baby Sister Fiction pilot Director 12 m
1998 Demain je brûle / Ghoudwa Nahrek
by Mohamed Ben Smaïl		 Drama Producer 95 m
2001 Karmen Geï[11] Fiction, music Screen writer, director 85 or 90 m
2006 Et si Latif avait raison !
(And what if Latif were right!)[5]		 Documentary Screen writer, director, producer 95 m
2007 Jaxaay Plan![12] Documentary Screen writer, director 26 m
2009 It's my man ![13] Documentary Director 65 m
2020 Mbas mi (The plague by Albert Camus) Short, drama Director, producer 8 m

Awards[edit]

Gaï Ramaka won various awards, such as:

  • Baaw-Naan/Rites de pluie (1985) - Masque d'Or for documentary at the Deuxième Festival International du Film sur le Carnaval et la Fête à Nice. Special mention by the jury at the Quatrième Festival International Jean Rouch/Bilan du Film Ethnographique[14] in Paris. First Prize for shorts of the Second Festival of Perugia, Italy.
  • Ainsi-soit-il (1997) - Silver Lion Award, First Prize Corto-cortissimo, 54th Venice Film Festival 1997.[2] Best Film Prize, Festival Vues d'Afrique Montreal 1998.[1]
  • Karmen Geï (2001) - Best Feature Award of the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF Los Angeles) 2006.[2]

Literature[edit]

  • Adesokan, Akin (2019). "6. 'The Invisible Government of the Powerful'. Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Cinema of Power". In Harrow, Kenneth W.; Garritano, Carmela (eds.). A companion to African cinema. Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 136–154. ISBN 9781119100317.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Joseph Gaï Ramaka. Biography. Senegal". africanfilmny.org. African Film Festival New York. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Joseph Gaï Ramaka, Sénégal". africultures.com (in French). Africultures. Les mondes en relation. 2019. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Joseph Gaye Ramaka Film director Producer Screenwriter". africine.org. Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC). 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  4. ^ Joseph Gaï Ramaka at IMDb
  5. ^ a b "Et si Latif avait raison !". film-documentaire.fr (in French). Film Doc. Film.documentaire.fr. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  6. ^ Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. p. 69. ISBN 0-253-35116-2.
  7. ^ Green-Simms, Lindsey (2019). "Chapter 9 "Outcast Orders" and the Imagining of a Queer African Cinema. A Fugitive, Afro-Jazz Reading of Karmen Geï". In Harrow, Kenneth W.; Garritano, Carmela (eds.). A companion to African cinema. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 194–215. ISBN 9781119100317.
  8. ^ Martin, Michael T.; Gaï Ramaka, Joseph (2009). "I Am Not a Filmmaker Engagé. I Am an Ordinary Citizen Engagé". Research in African Literatures. 40 (3): 206–219. JSTOR 40468145.
  9. ^ An adaptation of a story by Prosper Merimée
  10. ^ Based on a play The Strong Breed by Wolé Soyinka
  11. ^ Gaï Ramaka's adaptation of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet
  12. ^ Krueger Enz, Molly (2016). "Ramaka Joseph Gaï , director. Plan Jaxaay! 2007. 25 minutes. Wolof with English and French subtitles. Senegal. Observatoire Audiovisuel sur les Libertés". African Studies Review. 59 (201609): 315. doi:10.1017/asr.2016.72. OCLC 8271751653.
  13. ^ "IT'S MY MAN !". seneplus.com (in French). Retrieved 24 August 2023. Eileen Julien Sy raconte Kalidou Sy, l'ancien directeur de l'École nationale des Beaux Arts, décédé en 2005 – Un film-documentaire de Joseph Gaï Ramaka..
  14. ^ Rouch, Jean (1985). "Quatrième Bilan du Film Ethnographique - Palmarès" (pdf). comitedufilmethnographique.com (in French). Comité du Film Ethnographique, Musée de l'Homme, Paris. Retrieved 24 August 2023.

External links[edit]

Videos:

Interview:

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