Sana Na N'Hada

Sana Na N’Hada (born 1950) be a filmmaker wey komot Guinea Bissau, "the first filmmaker from Guinea-Bissau".Fernando Arenas, The Filmography of Guinea-Bissau’s Sana Na N’Hada: From the Return of Amílcar Cabral to the Threat of Global Drug Trafficking, Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol 30/31, 2017.

 Life 
Na dem born Sana Na N’Hada insyd 1950 insyd Enxalé. Though na ein poppie want make he work for de land top, he attend a Franciscan primary school give 'indigenous' students wey he encounter teachers active insyd de national liberation movement. Insyd de 1960s he join de guerrillas make he work as a medical assistant. Insyd 1967, Amílcar Cabral send am – togeda plus José Bolama Cubumba, Josefina Lopes Crato den Flora Gomes – make he study filmmaking for de Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos insyd Cuba. He later study for de Institut des hautes études cinématographiques insyd Paris.

Insyd 1978, Na N’Hada cam turn de first director of de National Film Institute, wey he hold de post til 1989.

Na N’Hada start ein own filmmaking plus chaw short films, de first two co-direct plus ein contemporary Flora Gomes. He collaborate plus Chris Marker for Marker ein essay-film Sans Soleil (1983), wey dey provide Marker plus footage of Bissau Carnival. Na he sanso be assistant director to Flora Gomes for ein first feature film, Mortu Nega [Those Whom Death Refused] (1988), den insyd Po di sangui [Blood Tree].

Na ein first feature film, Xime (1994) be co-written plus Joop van Wijk. Na Xime be a historical film set insyd 1962, de year before Guinea Bissau ein war of liberation start. Na dem show am for de Cannes Film Festival. Na dem use ein documentary Bissau d'Isabel (2005) de daily life of Isabel Nabalí Nhaga, a nurse wey dey struggle make she support ein family, as a microcosm of de city of Bissau. Na dem shoot de documentary Kadjike (2013), insyd de Bijagós Islands, juxtapose de natural beauty of de archipelago, den ein traditional understanding insyd Bijagó myth, to de threat pose by ein exploitation by de global drug trafficking trade.

Films
 (he co-direct plus Flora Gomes) Regresso de Cabral [Return of Cabral], 1976. Short semidocumentary.
 (he co-direct plus Flora Gomes) Anos no Oça Luta [We Dare to Fight], 1978. Short semidocumentary.
 Xime, 1994. Feature film.
 Bissau d'Isabel [Isabel's Bissau], 2005. Documentary.
 Kadjike [Sacred Bush], 2013
 Os Escultores de Espíritos [The Sculptors of Spirits], 2015
 Nome, 2023

 References 

External links

 Sana Na N'Hada at IMDb

Category:1950 births
Category:Bissau-Guinean people
Category:Human
Category:Bissau-Guinean film directors
Category:People wey komot Oio Region