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Fady of mandingo

The ancients were, the ancients are, and the ancients will be.
Man is not the first being on earth, and will never be the last.
And the Mandingo began with the woman and will end with the woman. . .
This is the story of Kèlè Massa, the Sahelian warrior of Kangaba in the deep Mandingo. She did not ride dragons like the Nordic queens (in Europe). But she is called the descendant woman, of the man who came from the stars. Her mother is from Timbuktu, the current north of Mali. A place that sheltered a form of intelligence that was shipwrecked on earth, at a time when this region still overflowed with oceans. Fady descended from a father who traded between the north and south of current Mali and part of Guinea. Fady was announced by the stars. That it will bring together the Mandingo, a society dominated largely by men, and the secret brotherhoods: The dossos (hunters who initiated the first Mandingo charter), the choubaguas (the night eaters), etc. . . .
The appearance of the Kèlè Massa is also a harbinger of a great danger that awaits the world, will she be able to face all these challenges?
In a society established by strict rules. Nonconformist by nature, will she be able to continue to defy these rules? Knowing that she is a native of Kangaba, she comes from a region where men and women can transform themselves. Their ancestors having made pacts with the animals of the bush.

  • Cheick Ahmadou Cheick 3D Ouattara
    Director
  • Hawa Sogoba
    Writer
  • Oumar Ag Abdoulaye
    Producer
  • Aboubacar Gakou
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Fady du mandingue
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 22, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Mali
  • Country of Filming:
    Mali
  • Language:
    Bambara
  • Shooting Format:
    4K H.264 mp4
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Cheick Ahmadou Cheick 3D Ouattara

Biography of Cheick Ahmadou Ouattara

Cheick Ahmadou Ouattara was born on February 6, 1978 in Bamako, Mali, I am 46 years old. In Bamako Badalabougou where he completed his primary studies, passionate about drawing and graphics that he had from a mother who was a math teacher and a father who was an engineer and architect, he was selected among the best in drawing in Bamako for an accelerated two-year training course by the Koreans; he then completed his secondary studies at the Cheickh Anta Diop high school in Faso Kanu in Bamako where he obtained his Baccalaureate in exact sciences with the best prizes in drawing. Then he completed his higher education at the Faculty of Sciences of Bamako (Sciences of matter), where he fell in love with cinema and computer graphics. With his knowledge of mathematics (D.E.U.G in Higher Mathematics) and self-taught training in graphic-oriented development, he created an audio-visual company Virtual 3D Communication specializing in special FX cinema effects and 3D animation for advertising and cinema, with a friend, after his engineering studies in computer systems and graphic-oriented development in 2005, his first scenarios were in the field of advertising, including among his works that of L'Oréal Morocco, Sony Morocco (In 3D spot), and educational films (3D animated film to raise awareness in rural areas) for certain NGOs, and the national channel of Mali. It was in 2012 that he made his first appearance in the cinema with the 3D design and FX Effects in the short film entitled:
• Together forever, a film that will experiment with the first film shot in real life with an incrustation of a virtual character designed in 3D. Then in 2013 in another short film:
• Saraka minè where he will be the artistic director, 3D designer and FX effects.
A film will Who Be the second most watched video on YouTube of Malian videos with 29 million views Finally it is towards the end of 2013 beginning of 2014 with a group of friends, he decided to embark on a fairly ambitious film project with a small
budget paid from his limited personal fund:
• the film Walia where he will be the director, producer, artistic director, 3D graphic designer, FX 2D 3D effects. A film that was shown for a week in theaters in Bamako.
Then in 2017 production of a short film: film based on a tale entitled:
• Gnobè a film presented at a storytelling festival organized in Bamako.
Then Screenwriter, director, 3D designer and 3D, 2D special effects supervisor
Of a 3D animated film entitled:
• Fady: the village of the transformed. A film using the motion capture technique
allowing for a fluidity of animation thanks to the digitization of movements
captured on real subjects. A first experience of its kind.
The wish is to be able to put his talent at the service of African directors. Because cinema no longer goes without the advanced techniques of the digital world. According to him, the latest generation of digital techniques allow an artist director to go to the depths of his imagination, to also have a limitless imagination. A film that was selected at FESPACO in Burkina Faso, at Emergences in Togo, at vue d’Afrique in Canada, at SWIFF in the United States, in Harlem in the United States again.
• Fady of Mandingo. A film using a very realistic rendering thanks to the DSSL 3 system with the latest generation of graphics card, this allowed me to push very far, artistically.

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