Cameroonian actress, screenwriter, film director

Ellie FOUMBI is an actor/writer/director from Cameroon. She holds an MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts in Directing. Her films have screened at several international film festivals, as well as placed in the Student Academy Awards Semifinals and been nominated for an African Movie Academy Award. She was invited to participate in New York Film Festival's prestigious Artist Academy. She's is a Tribeca Film Institute Alumni and Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow. Ellie made her TV directorial debut on BET's hip-hop anthology, Tales. She is a finalist of the 2019/2020 Venice Biennale Cinema College with her first feature which will be presented at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020.

Ellie Foumbi is an actor, writer, and director from Cameroon whose work has screened at Venice, Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Tribeca. Her first feature won the Best Narrative Feature Audience Award. She's an alumnus of Berlinale Talents and New York Film Festival's Artist Academy. Her projects have been supported by The Gotham, SFFILM Raining Grant, Film Independent, the Tribeca Film Institute and the Venice Biennale College. She holds an MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts in Directing.



Source : FESPACO 2023
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