Gabon

Gabonese director and screenwriter Samantha Biffot was born in 1985 in Paris, France and grew up between Asia and Africa. In 2007, she obtained a license in cinema with a specialization in editing, from the ESRA (École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle) in Paris and began working as a production assistant. After working at several productions companies in Paris, she went back to Gabon in 2010 where she started her own production company, Princesse M Productions, developing TV series, documentaries and narratives. In 2013, she won the prize for Best African Series at FESPACO for L'Oeil de la cité. In 2016, Biffot was nominated for the Francophone Cinema Trophies in the category of Best Documentary Feature for her film, The African Who Wanted to Fly, about the life of Gabonese kung fu master, Luc Bendza. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Festival Escales Socumentaires de Libreville in 2015 and the prize for Best Documentary Film at the Burundi International Film and Audiovisual Festival in 2017.

Filmography

L'Œil de la cité (TV Series - 2013)
The African Who Wanted to Fly (2016)
Parents mode d’emploi Afrique (TV Series - 2016 - 2020)
Taxi sagat (TV Series - 2016)
Kongossa telecom (TV Series - 2018)