Fama Reyane Sow
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Writer
Of French-Senegalese origin, Fama Reyane Sow is a writer, director and producer based in Dakar, Senegal.
With the desire since her adolescence to work in the world of cinema, she returned to Dakar after five years in France. She trained for a year at Sup'imax, an audiovisual school in Dakar. Then she decided to train by working on the shootings directly.
In 2015, at the FESPACO, she won a prize with her feature film script "Satché"
She then became assistant director for Alassane Sy, and worked on the short film "Marabout" which won the award for best short film at the Carthage Festival in 2016/2017. She is also assistant director for Joseph Adesunloye with the feature film "White color Black", and also for the American director Idil Ibrahim with "Sega" and many other productions in Senegal. She created her production company in 2017, and started working in the institutional sector, for various national and international companies and NGOs.
And also produces a lot of fiction scripts and concepts for TV games and cultural programs. In 2020, she directed her first short film "Anonymes" produced by Omar Sall of Cinekap, with 6 other Senegalese directors from the Up 'court metrage program. The film was selected for the Dakar court festival in December 2020, for the Vue d'Afrique festival, and for Fespaco.
In 2021 she directed for Raes a mini-series edutainement, spin-off of C'est la vie, which deals with illegal abortion "Omerta a Ratanga", as well as another mini-series made in Njamena in Chad "Au pays des Sao".
In 2023 she's directing a documentary television series "Alternativ'Tour", produced by her company Khaleebi Prod ;
She then became assistant director for Alassane Sy, and worked on the short film "Marabout" which won the award for best short film at the Carthage Festival in 2016/2017. She is also assistant director for Joseph Adesunloye with the feature film "White color Black", and also for the American director Idil Ibrahim with "Sega" and many other productions in Senegal. She created her production company in 2017, and started working in the institutional sector, for various national and international companies and NGOs.
And also produces a lot of fiction scripts and concepts for TV games and cultural programs. In 2020, she directed her first short film "Anonymes" produced by Omar Sall of Cinekap, with 6 other Senegalese directors from the Up 'court metrage program. The film was selected for the Dakar court festival in December 2020, for the Vue d'Afrique festival, and for Fespaco.
In 2021 she directed for Raes a mini-series edutainement, spin-off of C'est la vie, which deals with illegal abortion "Omerta a Ratanga", as well as another mini-series made in Njamena in Chad "Au pays des Sao".
In 2023 she's directing a documentary television series "Alternativ'Tour", produced by her company Khaleebi Prod ;