Assane Kouyaté (born 1954) is a Malian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

Biography

Assane Kouyaté was born in Bamako in 1954. In 1976 he got his degree in arts from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako, then went to the Moscow Institute of Cinema and Television, where he got his Diploma of Study of Cinema in 1989. In 1988, he worked with Russian director Sergei Salaviov as an assistant on the movie ''Pigeon''. He has collaborated with many directors worldwide, such as the Argentine Pablo César (''Aphrodite'', 1998). In 2002, he produced his first full-length film of his own: ''Kabala'', which tells the story of a Mandé village whose well dries up. ''Kabala'' won both the award for best screenplay and the Special Jury Prize at the

pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou or FESPACO) is a film festival in Burkina Faso, held biennially in Ouagadougou, where the organization is based. It ...

at Ouagadougou.

Filmography

* ''Kabala'' (2002)

External links

* 1954 births Living people Malian film directors People from Bamako 21st-century Malian people {{Mali-bio-stub