| LC control no. | no 96056305 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cissé, Souleymane |
| Variant(s) | Sise, Solomani |
| Associated country | Mali |
| Birth date | 19400421 |
| Place of birth | Bamako (Mali) |
| Field of activity | Motion picture industry |
| Affiliation | Union des créateurs et entrepreneurs du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Mali. Ministry of Information Pan-African Federation of Film-Makers Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ gosudarstvennyĭ institut kinematografii (Soviet Union) |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture producers and directors |
| Found in | Yeelen, 1987: credits (Solomani Sise) cassette container (Souleymane Cissé) Movie Database, Oct. 28, 1996 (Souleymane Cisse) Den muso, c2009: container (b. 1940 in Bamako, Mali) La lumière de Souleymane Cissé, 2013 Wikipedia, Dec. 10, 2013 (Souleyman e Cissé (b. Apr. 21, 1940 in Bamako) is a Malian film director, one of the pillars of African cinema; he studied in Moscow, School of Cinema and Television; in 1970 he returned to Mali and joined the Ministry of Information as a cameraman, where he produced documentaries and short films; In 1975 he directed his full-length film in the Bambara language, "Den Muso (The Girl)," which was immediately banned by the Malian authorities and earned him a prison sentence; in 1987, he became the first African filmmaker to be awarded in Cannes for his masterpiece "Yeelen (Light)"; since 1997 hi is the founding president of the Union of creators and entrepreneurs of cinema and audiovisual in West Africa (UCECAO)) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souleymane_Ciss%C3%A9> Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cissé, Souleymane; motion picture producer and director; born 1940 in Bamako, Mali; graduated from the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (1969); made documentaries for the Ministry of Information, Mali (1969); made: Cinq jours d'une vie (1972), Den muso (The Girl, 1975), Baara (Work, 1978), Finyé (The Wind, 1982), and Yeelen (Brightness, 1987); was influenced by Soviet social realism and by Italian neorealism; became an active member of the Fédération Panafricaine des Cinéastes; led the effort to increase African film distribution and help new African filmmakers overcome the technical and economic obstacles of their work) |
| Associated language | fre |
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