Léonce Ngabo

Burundian film director (born 1951)

documentary filmmaker
director
producer

Known forGito l'ingrat, Burundi

Léonce Ngabo (born 1951) is a Burundian film director. His 1992 film Gito l'ingrat was the first Burundian feature film.^[1]

Life

Ngabo studied chemistry, but kept up his musical interests and wrote the screenplay for a short film and a fairy tale. With the support of a Swiss film-maker, he secured an advance for a full-length feature film. The resulting film, Gito l'ingrat, received international attention.^[2]

Ngabo is the founder and chairperson of International Festival of Cinema and Broadcasting in Burundi (FESTICAB).^[2] He also helped establish the East African Film Network (EAFN) in 2014,^[3] and was elected as EAFN's chair.^[4]

Filmography

As director

Gito l'ingrat [Gito the Ungrateful], 1992
Burundi 1850-1962, 2010

As actor

Un dimanche à Kigali [A Sunday in Kigali], 2006

References

^ Léonce Ngabo, Africultures
^ ^a ^b 'Vivace Bujumbura', The Courier, No. 17 (May-June 2010), p.57
^ African Film Network Launched, bigeye.ug, 20 March 2014.
^ The East African Films Network aims to gather all EAC films, IWACU English News, 5 October 2014.