The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Guinea-Bissau
This page contains a list of the greatest Guinea-Bissauan Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 1,581 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Guinea-Bissau. This makes Guinea-Bissau the birth place of the 87th most number of Film Directors behind Chad and Saudi Arabia.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Guinea-Bissauan Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Guinea-Bissauan Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Flora Gomes (1949 - )
With an HPI of 40.91, Flora Gomes is the most famous Guinea-Bissauan Film Director. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Flora Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean film director. He was born in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau on 31 December 1949 and after high school in Cuba, he decided to study film at the Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos in Havana. Shot fourteen years after independence, Gomes's Mortu Nega (Death Denied) (1988) was the first fiction film and the second feature film ever made in Guinea-Bissau. (The first feature film was N’tturudu, by director Umban u’Kest in 1987.) At FESPACO 1989, the film won the prestigious Oumarou Ganda Prize. Mortu Nega is in Creole with English subtitles. In 1992, Gomes directed Udju Azul di Yonta, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as film directors born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living film directors include Flora Gomes. As of April 2022, 1 new film directors have been added to Pantheon including Flora Gomes.
