Mambaye Coulibaly
{{Short description|Malian film director, composer and film editor (1957–2015)}}
{{infobox person
| name = Mambanye Coulibaly
| occupation = Film director
| years active =
| notable_works = La Geste de Ségou!
| birth_date = {{birth-date|2 May 1957}}
| birth_place = Kayes, Mali
| death_date = {{d-da|7 February 2015|2 May 1957}}
| death_place = Kayes, Mali
}}
Mambaye Coulibaly (1957–2015) was a Malian film director, who pioneered animation in African cinema.
Life
Mambaye Coulibaly was born on 2 May 1957 in Kayes. After studying law, he turned to film in 1987.Assane Koné, [https://www.maliweb.net/necrologie/cinema-malien-en-deuil-mambaye-coulibaly-le-precurseur-du-cinema-danimation-africain-nest-plus-801742.html Cinéma malien en deuil : Mambaye Coulibaly, le précurseur du cinéma d’animation africain n’est plus], MaliWeb, 13 February 2015. La Geste de Ségou! (1989), for which Coulibaly also wrote the music, was an animated short film inspired by historical events in the Bambara Empire of Ségou.[http://malijet.com/la_societe_malienne_aujourdhui/124392-mambaye-coulibaly%2C-r%C3%A9alisateur-le-pr%C3%A9curseur-du-cin%C3%A9ma-d%E2%80%99animati.html Mambaye Coulibaly, réalisateur : Le précurseur du cinéma d’animation africain a tiré sa révérence], Malijet, 28 February 2015. The Ivorian playwright Werewere Liking designed puppets for the film.{{cite book|author=Kenneth W. Harrow|title=With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9es6zZIb-NcC&pg=PA169|year=1997|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-0154-2|page=169}}
In 1996 Coulibaly started working on a feature-length animation project, Le Pouvoir de Ségou, a project relaunched in 2009 as part of the Euromédiatoon project. Unfortunately long-term illness prevented the film's completion. Coulibaly died on 7 February 2015 at Kayes.
Films
- La Geste de Ségou!, 1989
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0183409}}
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Category:Malian film directors