Rwandan Film Director, Scriptwriter and Producer (Film & Music).

JACQUELINE KALIMUNDA was born in Kigali, Rwanda in 1974 and lived in Kenya, Madagascar and the UK before settling in France. After graduating in business and in history, she started working in film production. She trained as an editor and worked on documentaries and TV films. She also worked as continuity on French TV series.

In 2002 she wrote, directed and co-produced her first film, the 23 minute multi-awarded ABOUT BRAIDS. The short film was also distributed in theatres in the UK and the USA.

The documentary HOMELAND is the conclusion of a long project started when she was researching images of Rwanda for her graduation thesis with historians Jean-Pierre Chretien and Helene d'Almeida Topor. For this award winning documentary, Jacqueline Kalimunda unveiled 80 years of unpublished film archives on Rwanda.

In 2007 and 2008, Jacqueline Kalimunda directed the first and second season of TV series IMAGINE AFRIKA, broadcasted in 35 African countries on public tv channels in English, French, Swahili, Zulu, Portuguese? Then she directed in coproduction with Canal Plus the feature film High Life to be released in 2010.

An alumni of the Berlinale Talent Campus (for France), Jacqueline Kalimunda is dedicated to original stories and strong themes and is now developping 2 projects as a producer and writing the script of her next project as a director.

FILMOGRAPHY

HIGH LIFE/ LALA & LES GAOUS
87 minutes, narrative - 2009
Produced by SIMBA NOTES and CANAL PLUS
To be released in 2010

IMAGINE AFRIKA season 2
(13X48 minutes) - 2008 TV series
Produced by Born Free Media (South Africa) - African Broadcasting Media Partnership (ABMP) and Kaiser Family Foundation (USA)
Broadcasted in 33 African countries on public channels.

IMAGINE AFRIKA season 1
(13X24 minutes) - 2007 TV series
Produced by Born Free Media (South Africa) - African Broadcasting Media Partnership (ABMP) and Kaiser Family Foundation (USA)
Broadcasted in 33 African countries on public channels.

HOMELAND
(90mn - DV 16mm and super 8mm) - 2005 documentary
Production : Emile Furieux Production and Simba Notes
With the contribution of Centre National de la Cinematographie (France) and Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture (Rwanda)
Montreal Vues d'Afrique DOCUMENTARY GRAND PRIX
New York film festival 2006 - FESPACO 2007 - Cozes 2007 - Afrikafilmfest Leuven 2007 - Doc à Tunis 2007 - Tokyo documentary film festival 2007 and 2008, Africa in the pictures (Amsterdam)? Creteil Festival du film de femmes 2010 -
Broadcasted by TV5 / Delta?
ABOUT BRAIDS
(23 mn - 35mm) - 2002 fiction
with Laurentine Milebo and Penda Niang
Production : GREC and Jacqueline Kalimunda
Venice Film festival 2003 - City of Venice Prize
Milan African film festival 2003 - Best short film
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2003 - Best Short film
Cozes Film Festival (France) 2003 - Public Prize
Montreal Film festival 2004 - Special Mention
Part of the contemporary African art exhibition in London African Remix (Feb-April 2005) at the Hayward Gallery and the contemporary African art exhibition The Pigozzi Collection in Houston, TEXAS (Museum of Fine Art).
Distributed in the USA and in the UK.

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Biografia reżyserki:
Jacqueline Kalimunda - urodzona w Rwandzie. Po wyjeździe z kraju mieszkała w kilku państwach, zanim osiadła w Paryżu. Po studiach biznesowych i historycznych niespodziewanie rozpoczęła pracę w przemyśle filmowym, głównie jako montażystka (np. przy ?The Justice of Men" [Sprawiedliwość mężczyzn] w reż. Jean Xavier de Lestrade). Pierwszy scenariusz napisała i wyreżyserowała w 2002 roku. Był to 23-minutowy obraz ?About Braids" [O warkoczykach], który otrzymał liczne nagrody międzynarodowe, w tym za najlepszy film krótkometrażowy w Milanie w 2003r. Po ?Ojczyźnie" poprzez własną firmę produkcyjną Simba Notes rozpoczęła pracę nad pierwszym pełnometrażowym filmem fabularnym, którego premiera zapowiedziana została na drugą połowę 2010 roku.


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