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The Executive Director of Yango Biennale – Kiripi Katembo Siku
Kiripi Katembo Siku – a Painter, Photographer, Film Maker and Film Producer is also Founding Director of Mutotu and Executive Director of the Yango Biennale based in Kinshasa, Congo. He is the founder of the collective Yebela for photographers and video artists in Congo Kinshasa. He was second assistant director of the fiction feature films: Viva Riva by DJO Munga wa Tunda and assistant director and Casting “Rebelle” War Witch of Kim Nguyen – that got Oscar-nomination for a child soldier drama film. The film was Canada’s entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 85th Academy Awards, and became one of the five nominees. The film was the top winner at the first Canadian Screen Awards, winning 10 awards – including wins for best film, best director, best screenplay and best actress for its teenage star, Rachel Mwanza. His other film productions, among them Atalaku by Dieudo Hamadi, got the award for best documentary film at Cinema du Reel festival at the Centre Pompidou (Paris) in 20 13 and received in the same year Best price for Foreign / Diaspora Film in New York (USA). Kiripi is also producer of (Congo in Four Acts) – codirected by Dieudo Hamadi and Divita Wa Lusala that received 2 awards: “Cinema du Reel (20 10) and “Africa Movie Academy Awards” and was shown in many international film platforms including IDFA. Kiripi also produced “Symphony Kinshasa” (2009) and Cardboard Car Film (2008), which took the media scene by storm among them – CNN and was shown at the Centre Pompidou in France. His films have been shown at film festivals in Berlin, Toronto, IDFA, and Carthage in Tunisia and was in 2013 invited to Festival de Cannes. Besides his work in the field of Cinema, Kirip i is also a brilliant photographer whose work is collected world-wide and has been exhibited in major platforms among them: Venice Biennale, IFAA, Berlinale, New York Contemporary Art Biennial, Rencontres de Bamako, 67th Festival d’Avignon, Rencontres d’Arles. Royal Museum of Tervuren Brussels (Belgium), BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (Belgium) TAZ in Ostend (Belgium), in Tunisia and in KVS -Flemish cultural center Brussels (Belgium). Kiripi is also the 20 13 winner and author of the photos illustrating the preview programme and poster of the 67th Festival d’Avignon. He has won several Awards for his visuals arts work, is also publicised in numerous magazines including Coumer International Africa and Art catalogues
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