Musicians, actors and artists
Lula Ali Ismaïl (Luula Cali Ismaaciil)
Lula Ali Ismaïl (born 1978) is a Djiboutian-Canadian film director and screenwriter, the first woman from Djibouti to make a film. Her short Laan (2011) was shown at FESPACO in 2013, and her feature Dhalinyaro (2017), filmed entirely in Djibouti, is the country's first feature film.
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- Lived
- 1978 to today
- Known as one of
- Musicians, actors and artists
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who is she?
Lula Ali Ismaïl is a Djiboutian-Canadian film director and screenwriter, and the first woman from Djibouti to produce a film (Wikipedia, Lula Ali Ismaïl). She was born in Djibouti in 1978, the youngest of eight children, and settled in Montreal in 1992 (same source). She worked for seven years as a legal assistant before taking acting courses and small television roles in Quebec (same source).
Laan (2011)
Her first film, the 27-minute short Laan ("Friends"), follows three young women in Djibouti (Wikipedia). It was funded mainly by her family and friends, since the Ministry of Culture had no budget for it, and she also played a lead role (same source). It was shown at Vues d'Afrique in Montreal in 2012 and at FESPACO in 2013 (same source).
Dhalinyaro (2017)
Her first feature, Dhalinyaro ("Youth"), follows three young women from different backgrounds and was filmed entirely in Djibouti (Wikipedia). A co-production of Djibouti, France, Canada and Somalia, supported by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, it premiered in Djibouti in 2017 and is the country's first feature film (same source). See Somalis in Djibouti.
In short
The first Djiboutian woman to make a film, and director of Djibouti's first feature, Dhalinyaro.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Lula Ali Ismaïl · en.wikipedia.org
Lula Ali IsmaïlLuula Cali Ismaaciil · Lula Ali Ismail
- Lived
- 1978 to today
- Known as one of
- Musicians, actors and artists
- Era
- The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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