{"id":2399,"date":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:02:41","slug":"sarah-maldoror-filmmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Maldoror, filmmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sarah Maldoror a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent died on 13 April 2020, at the age of 90, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.<\/p>\n

Maldoror is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961\u20131974 war in Angola.<\/p>\n

Born Sarah Durados in 1929 in Condom, Gers, the daughter of emigrants from Guadeloupe, she chose her artist’s name in remembrance of Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautr\u00e9amont.<\/p>\n

She attended a drama school in Paris. Together with her husband, Angolan nationalist M\u00e1rio Pinto de Andrade, she received a scholarship and studied film with Mark Donskoi in Moscow in 1961\u201362 where she met Ousmane Semb\u00e8ne.<\/p>\n

After her studies, Maldoror, worked as an assistant on Gillo Pontecorvo’s acclaimed film, The Battle of Algiers (1966). She also worked as an assistant to Algerian director Ahmed Lallem.<\/p>\n

Maldoror’s short film, Monangambee (1968), was set in Angola, based on a story by Angolan writer Jos\u00e9 Luandino Vieira. The title of this 17-minute film, Monangamb\u00e9e, refers to the call used by Angolan anti-colonial activists to signal a village meeting. The film was shot with amateur actors in Algeria. It tells the story of a poor woman who visits her husband, who is imprisoned in the city of Luanda. The film was selected for the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes in 1971, representing Angola.<\/p>\n

Her first feature film, Sambizanga (1972), was also based on a story by Vieira (A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier), and is set in 1961 at the onset of the Angolan War of Independence. Guardian film writer Mark Cousins included Sambizanga in a 2012 list of the ten best African films, calling it “as bold, as well-lit as Caravaggio paintings”.<\/p>\n

Maldoror is one of the first women to direct a feature film in Africa; therefore, her work is often included in studies of the role of African women in African cinema.\n<\/p>\n

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Sarah Maldoror a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent died on 13 April 2020, at the age of 90, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Maldoror is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961\u20131974 war in Angola. 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