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Issa Serge Coelo is a Actor, Director and Writer born on 1 january 1967

Issa Serge Coelo

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Birth 1 january 1967 (57 years)

Issa Serge Coelo est un réalisateur tchadien né en 1967.

Biography

Issa Serge Coelo a fait sa scolarité à N'Djaména et à Bamako. Puis il vient à Paris étudier l'histoire à l'Université Paris I Tolbiac. Il change ensuite d'orientation et fait une maîtrise de cinéma à l'école supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle. Après ses études, il travaille d'abord comme cadreur puis se dirige vers la réalisation.


Son premier court-métrage de fiction, Un taxi pour Aouzou, est réalisé en 1994 au moment de la libération de la bande d'Aouzou. Le cinéaste brosse un portrait de N'Djaména, la capitale du Tchad, meurtrie par des années de guerre civile. Il réalise son premier long métrage en 2001, Daresalam. Dans ce film, Issa Serge Coelo évoque l'histoire de deux frères pendant la guerre du Tchad.


Parallèlement à sa carrière de réalisateur, Issa Serge Coelo a produit plusieurs films de cinéastes africains avec sa société, Parenthèse Films : "Nous ne sommes plus morts" de François Woukoache, "Bouzié" de Jacques Trabi et "Little John" de Cheick Fantamady Camara. Issa Serge Coelo a réalisé plus d'une dizaine d’œuvres (documentaires et fictions). Il a été plusieurs fois juré dans des festivals internationaux, il est membre de la Guilde Africaine et des producteurs africains et de l'Académie des arts et techniques du Cinéma Français. Il est le directeur depuis 2011 du cinéma Le Normandie, une salle de 600 places, construit en 1949, qui reste l'unique salle de cinéma du Tchad.

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Filmography of Issa Serge Coelo (3 films)

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Actor

Bye Bye Africa, 1h26
Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Origin France
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Issa Serge Coelo
Roles Serge
Rating64% 3.2326953.2326953.2326953.2326953.232695
A Chadian film director who lives and works in France (Haroun) returns home upon the death of his mother. He is shocked at the degraded state of the country and the national cinema. Encountering skepticism from his family members about his chosen career, Haroun tries to defend himself by quoting Jean-Luc Godard: "The cinema creates memories." The filmmaker decides to make a film dedicated to his mother entitled Bye Bye Africa but immediately encounters major problems. Cinemas have closed and financing is impossible to secure. The director reunites with an old girlfriend (Yelena), who was shunned by Chadians who could not distinguish between film and reality after appearing in one of his previous films as an HIV victim. Haroun learns about the destruction of the African cinema from directors in neighboring countries, but also finds Issa Serge Coelo shooting his first film, Daressalam. Things go badly and, convinced that it is impossible to make films in Africa, Haroun departs Chad in despair, leaving his film camera to a young boy who had been assisting him.

Director

DP75: Tartina City, 1h30
Directed by Issa Serge Coelo
Origin France
Actors Youssouf Djaoro
Rating69% 3.4514453.4514453.4514453.4514453.451445
The action is set in an unnamed African country, where a brutal governative death squad commanded by Colonel Koulbou (Felkissam Mahamat) is active. A journalist, Adoum (Youssouf Djaoro), having obtained his passport wants to travel abroad so to be able to report on the situation in his country; but while at the airport, a compromising letter is found on him. Adoum is thrown in one of Koulbou's jails. All hope seems lost, but Adoum finds unexpected help from Koulbou's estranged wife, Hawa.
Daresalam
Daresalam (2001)
, 1h45
Directed by Issa Serge Coelo
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Sidiki Bakaba, Youssouf Djaoro
Rating67% 3.3716753.3716753.3716753.3716753.371675
The film takes place in a fictional central African country (called Daresalam, "the Land of Peace" in Arabic) amidst a civil war. It features as main characters two young friends, Koni (Haikal Zakaria) and Djimi (Abdoulaye Ahmat), whose peaceful existence is interrupted when the central government irrupts in their village harassing them and browbeating the villagers into paying new taxes to help fight the civil war.

Scriptwriter

Daresalam
Daresalam (2001)
, 1h45
Directed by Issa Serge Coelo
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Sidiki Bakaba, Youssouf Djaoro
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.3716753.3716753.3716753.3716753.371675
The film takes place in a fictional central African country (called Daresalam, "the Land of Peace" in Arabic) amidst a civil war. It features as main characters two young friends, Koni (Haikal Zakaria) and Djimi (Abdoulaye Ahmat), whose peaceful existence is interrupted when the central government irrupts in their village harassing them and browbeating the villagers into paying new taxes to help fight the civil war.