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Amina Weira

Film-Director

Niger

Documentary film has become her tool of ex-pression, a way of expressing her ideas. It is also through this art that Amina makes people discover and know her culture, her values, her realities beyond the borders.

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Medium, Lenght movies

Documentary

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Biography

Amina Weira is a Nigerien film director. She is a native of the city of Arlit where she spent her primary and secondary education. She holds a degree in video editing from the Institute for training in information and communication techniques in Niamey and a master's degree in creative documentary filmmaking from the Uni- versité Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal.



Documentary film has become her tool of ex-pression, a way of expressing her ideas. It is also through this art that Amina makes people discover and know her culture, her values, her realities beyond the borders. Through docu-mentaries, Amina exposes, with a certain beauty, the realities of her society in the hope of marvelling, raising awareness or even finding solutions to certain problems that afflict them.



The young director signed her first film in 2011 and has to her credit four other medium-length movies. But it is her denunciatory documentary ''La colère dans le vent'' (Anger in the Wind) produced by Vrai-Vrai Films and released in 2016, which gave her international notoriety. This film, about the radioactive disasters of uranium processing, has already received a dozen international awards.

Discography / Filmography / Collection

FILMOGRAPHY
2020 A Confined Schooling
2018 A gesture, a heart
2016 Anger in the Wind

2013 It's Possible
2012 Studies in Honey
2011 Film Music

The press

Notable gigs

2018 SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, "Green Image Film" Festival, Tokyo - Japan,
2017 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPPEMENT PRIZE awarded by IFDD, "Vues d'Afrique" Festival, Canada,
2017 BEST SHORT AND MEDIUM-TERM FILM PRIZE awarded by the OIF, "Vues d'Afrique" Festival, Canada,
2017 3rd JURY PRIZE, "Festival Caméras des champs" Festival, Ville-sur-Yron,
2017 JURY'S SPECIAL MENTION, "Filmer le travail" Festival, Poitiers,
2016 PRIZE FOR FIRST PROFESSIONAL FILM, Festival Traces de vie
2016 BEST PROFESSIONAL MEDIUM FILM, Toukountchi Film Festival of Niger
2016 SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY, International Documentary Festival, Saint-Louis du Sénégal,

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