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- Med Hondo (born Mohamed Abid; 4 May 1935 – 2 March 2019) was a Mauritanian-born French director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Considered a founding father of African cinema, he is known for his controversial films dealing with issues such as race relations and colonization.
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Med Hondo (born Mohamed Abid; 4 May 1935 – 2 March 2019) was a Mauritanian-born French director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Considered a founding father of African cinema, he is known for his controversial films dealing with issues such as race relations and colonization. [1]
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During his long history with the Harvard Film Archive, Med Hondo received the McMillan Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking in 1999-2000. This fellowship was established at the Film Study Center in 1997 with a generous gift from Genevieve McMillan in memory of her late friend, Reba Stewart, in support of outstanding filmmakers, especially...
In 2019 the Harvard Film Archive received grant funding from the McMillan Stewart Foundation to begin work on the digital restoration of West Indies and Sarraounia. This project resulted in the creation of new English and French subtitled DCPs and digital files in the fall of 2021 with lab work done in Paris by Blackhawk Films and Lumières Numériqu...
A recording of Med Hondo's visit to the Harvard Film Archive, April 28 and 29, 2000, also featuring Isaac Julien, Katie Trainor, Steffen Pierce, John Gianvito and Bruce Jenkins. "What Is Cinema for Us?," Med Hondo, Jump Cut, March 1986 "By Any Means Necessary: Med Hondo," Aboubakar Sanogo, Film Comment, May-June 2020 "Med Hondo: Alter-Modernist," C...
Abid Mohammed Medoun Hondo, known as Med Hondo is a filmmaker from Mauritania who has been making films for over forty-five years and today remains one of the leading West African filmmakers working on the continent, in Europe, and the United States.
And having passed away in March last year, Mohamed Abid Medoun Hondo, better known as Med Hondo, joins this illustrious pantheon of thinkers, political figures, and artists whose work laid the foundation for the advent of such a world.
This year’s recipient of the Genevieve McMillan and Reba Stewart Fellowship for Distinguished Filmmaking is director Med Hondo. Son of a Senegalese father and Mauritanian mother, Abid Mohammed Medoun Hondo was born in 1936 in Ain Ouled Beri Mathar, in the Atar region of Mauritania.
Mar 3, 2019 · French-Mauritanian filmmaker Abid Mohamed Medoun Hondo (professionally known as Med Hondo), a founding father of African cinema, died Saturday morning in Paris. He was 82 years old.
One of Africa’s most acclaimed directors, Abid Mohamed Medonn Hondo was born in Mauritania in 1936. At the age of twenty-five, he left his native Mauritania and went to Marseilles, France, where he worked an assortment of jobs.
