Tribal Zone

Mohamed Alarini Bah, born on April 14th 1984 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He attended the Wallace John Primary School where he attained his National Primary Selective Entrace (N.P.S.E) Certificate in 1999.

Started acting in his primary school drama group. He then moved to St. Edward’s Secondary school where he sat to his Basic Examinations Certificate (BECE) IN 2002 and his West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in 2005. During his days at St. Edward’s Secondary School, he was an actor in a radio drama series (Olu Series) in Talking drum Studio and his Secondary school drama group. After he sat to his WASSCE he joined Starz Production a theatre group to pursue his acting career. Also in 2005 he enrolled at Center for Media Education and Technology (C-MET) where he did a certificate program in Radio Journalism.

He worked in various radio Station such as Citizen’s Radio, Culture Radio and Voice of Islam. In May 2013 he released his first film Mistaken Identity and since then he has been an active filmmaker. In 2014 and 2015 he did two short films Key to Success which he was the writer and Hope after Ebola which he was the writer and director. In November to December 2015 he participated in a filmmaking and media for peace training workshop named Sierra Leone On the Mend. He was trained in sound and editing and also acted in three films in the same project.

One of the films (Jattu) won an award at the Black Filmmakers’ International Film Festival in Berlin in 2016. In 2016 he also attended the Sierra Leone on the rise filmmaking and media for peace workshop where he was trained to direct documentary films.

He directed a short documentary film titled Convicted! What Next? And the documentary won an award in 2017 from the Black filmmakers’ international film festival in Berlin. In 2017 he joined the Sierra Leone Adult Education Association (SLADEA) as a volunteer. In 2017 he was part of On the Move filmmaking workshop, where he was trained as a trainer to train young and aspiring filmmakers in basic filmmaking techniques. He was part of the team that trained young and aspiring filmmakers from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana. He was the Assistance Director for a short documentary film titled 'Digging for a new life' and one of the editors for ‘Dancer’ which won an award at the 2018 Black filmmakers film festival in Berlin .

In 2018 He was part of All on Board film project where he was part of the trainers who trained young and aspiring filmmakers from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana in filmmaking and Media for Peace in Ghana. He directed a film titled Tribal Zone after the workshop in Ghana. In November and December, 2018 he happened to be one of the facilitators in two filmmaking workshops where he trained young people in Sierra Leone in filmmaking and Media for Peace. In March 2019 he attended a master class in Camera and Editing. From January 2018, to present he is the Documentation Officer of SLADEA.