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Samson Giorgis

Samson Giorgis
Film director, Sound engineer, Screenwriter, Assistant director
Principal country concerned : Column : Music, Theater, Cinema/tv, Dance

Author and director of documentary films:
- The return of the obelisk
64 mns, Yalem Films/Margo Films broadcast on ETV Ethiopian Television expected in 2007

- Rethinking justice, Imprisonment in Africa
34 mns for the NGO Penal Reform International, February 2005

- Community Service in Africa, an alternative to Imprisonment
55 mns et 26 mns for the NGO Penal Reform International, Broadcasted Sep. 2002 CFI

- Ethiopian Polyphonies Doko songs/Harari songs
52 mns, Bel Air Média, Broadcasted in October 2001 Muzzik and Canal Satellite.
Bartok prize of the best film for the French society of Ethnomusicology, Bilan Ethnographique, Museum of Human kind, Paris 2002 ;
Special Jury prize, Vienna TV Award, Austria 2002.

- The Djibouto-Ethiopian train, stories of a return
52 mns, Les films du village/RFO, International Broadcasting, 1994. Australia SBS TV, TV3 Barcelona, RTS I TV Suisse-Italian Channel, Planète France, CFI, the 5th Channel

- The Azmaris of Addis-Ababa
18 mns, for Megamix, for the ARTE Channel programme, France 1994.

- Abo
15 mns, Les Ateliers Varan, Paris, 1995.


Assistant director for documentaries and feature films:

- "Menged" 19 mns, of Daniel Worku, short length fiction, Birabiro production, 2006

- "The queen of Sheba" 1h30, of Martin Meissonnier, Gaumont/ARTE, broadcasted 1999

- "The guardians of time"1h30, de Martin Meissonnier, Factory/Canal +, ARTE broadcast.

- "The 11th commandment" feature film of Mama Keita 1997.

- Sound engineer: "Hailé Guerima, back in home town" 6mns, Shoot again/Canal +, 1995.

Partners

  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Exnihilo Art Center

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