FILM DIRECTOR

Flora Gomes

1949 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Flora Gomes has received more than 35,028 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Flora Gomes is the 1,389th most popular film director (up from 1,399th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Guinea-Bissau and the most popular Guinea-Bissauan Film Director.

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  • 35k

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  • 44.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Flora Gomes ranks 1,389 out of 2,041. Before him are Chloé Zhao, Carlos Saldanha, Lev Arnshtam, Gavin Hood, Edward Lachman, and Lev Kulidzhanov. After him are Hugh Wilson, James Gray, François Dupeyron, Ken Burns, Michael Hoffman, and Pierre Morel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Flora Gomes ranks 577. Before him are Steve Gaines, Ishenbai Kadyrbekov, Jean-Jacques Favier, Jonathan Kellerman, Ieremia Tabai, and Wenceslao Padilla. After him are Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, José Rodrigues Neto, Dave Gibbons, Jim Lea, James Rivière, and Ryohei Suzuki.

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In Guinea-Bissau

Among people born in Guinea-Bissau, Flora Gomes ranks 20 out of 38. Before him are Ansu Fati (2002), Raimundo Pereira (1956), Danilo Pereira (1991), Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo (1958), Aristides Gomes (1954), and Mamadu Ture Kuruma (1947). After him are Nuno Gomes Nabiam (1966), Bruma (1994), Domingos Simões Pereira (1963), Rui Duarte de Barros (1960), Martinho Ndafa Kabi (1957), and Adiato Djaló Nandigna (1958).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Guinea-Bissau

Among film directors born in Guinea-Bissau, Flora Gomes ranks 1. 

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