FILM DIRECTOR

Flora Gomes

1949 - Today

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Flora Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean film director. He was born in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau on 31 December 1949 and after high school in Cuba, he decided to study film at the Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos in Havana. Shot fourteen years after independence, Gomes's Mortu Nega (Death Denied) (1988) was the first fiction film and the second feature film ever made in Guinea-Bissau. (The first feature film was N’tturudu, by director Umban u’Kest in 1987.) At FESPACO 1989, the film won the prestigious Oumarou Ganda Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Flora Gomes is the 1,388th most popular film director (up from 1,389th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Guinea-Bissau (down from 20th in 2019) and the most popular Guinea-Bissauan Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Flora Gomes ranks 1,388 out of 2,041. Before him are Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Zoltan Korda, Joe Roth, Juan José Campanella, Janusz Majewski, and Jerzy Antczak. After him are Chris Menges, Bennett Miller, Lev Arnshtam, Michael Winterbottom, Noémie Lvovsky, and Naomi Kawase.

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Among people born in 1949, Flora Gomes ranks 604. Before him are Nadezhda Ilyina, Dan Ar Braz, Roy Bittan, Günther Schumacher, Témime Lahzami, and Ed King. After him are Zbigniew Gut, Ivan Stoyanov, Wenceslao Padilla, Owen Arthur, Nikolai Pankin, and David Cross.

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In Guinea-Bissau

Among people born in Guinea-Bissau, Flora Gomes ranks 21 out of 38. Before him are Raimundo Pereira (1956), Danilo Pereira (1991), Aristides Gomes (1954), Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo (1958), Nuno Gomes Nabiam (1966), and Rui Duarte de Barros (1960). After him are Martinho Ndafa Kabi (1957), Mamadu Ture Kuruma (1947), Domingos Simões Pereira (1963), Bruma (1994), Adiato Djaló Nandigna (1958), and Baciro Djá (1973).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Guinea-Bissau

Among film directors born in Guinea-Bissau, Flora Gomes ranks 1. 

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