Photo credit : Dominique Fils-Aimé

Alliah Fafin

Director

Alliah Fafin was born in Rwanda and raised in Burundi until the 1993 civil war. After studying directing in New-York, she directed music videos for Dominique Fils-Aimé (Révélation Radio-Canada 2019-2020), as well as promotional videos for artists such as Rafael Lozano Hemmer (Winner of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts).

She left Quebec in 2016 for Chad, where she worked with UNICEF on the production of several videos illustrating the problems encountered by local populations, Nigerian refugees and Central African returnees. In 2018, she shot her first short film Amani in Chad, which was inspired by her experience in Burundi. She is currently working on her first feature film, Métis, as well as a web series, Par amour.

Filmography

One Day Maybe (Un jour peut-être)

In development

Short film
Director and screenwriter

Métis

In development

Feature film - Fiction
Director

For Love (Par amour )

In development

Web series
Director

Amani

2018-2020

Short film | 17 min
Director
Produced in Residence with les Films de l’Autre

Awards

Prix / Bourse mobilité francophone awarded by LOJIQ at the 38th Festival International de Cinéma Vues d’Afrique – April 2022
Best Canadian Short (jury selection), Kingston Canadian Film Festival – March 2022
Special Audience Mention at the International Film Festival of Ottawa – March 2022
Zébu d’Or « À chacun son cinéma », 16th Rencontres du Film Court Madagascar – November 2021
Poulain d’argent – Pan-African Film Festival Ouagadougou – 2021
Official selection, Festival REGARD in Saguenay and in competition for the Grand Prix canadien – June 2021
Selection to the 17th Gala Prends ça court, winner of PÉRIPHÉRIA award and two jury mentions – May 2021
FESTIVALS
Selection at the 39th Busan International Short Film Festival – May 2022
Selection at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma – April 2022
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie – Official selection - 2021
Selected by SODEC to represent Québec at Marché du Court de Clermont-Ferrand – January 2021

Education In Emergencies

2017

Short film | 2 min
Director
Produced by UNICEF Chad

Rafael Lozano Hemmer, winner of a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, administered by le Conseil des arts du Canada

2015

3 min. 55 – HD
Exhibition at National Gallery of Canada - April 9th to August 30th, 2015
Airing on Air Canada national and international flights - April to July 2015
Broadcast at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival - June 2015

Déprogrammation et formatage - Collective of artists for an exhibition on Alzheimer's disease

2013

Broadcast at the Maison de la Culture du Plateau-Mont-Royal - April 21st, 2015
Selection of the GIV (Groupe Intervention Vidéo)

L’Enfant que je n’ai pas – Mario Pelchat

2022

3 min. 30
Director

Sombras – Mamselle Ruiz (Radio-Canada revelation 2013-2014)

2015

5 min. – HD
Director

Sexy and He knows it – LMFAO covered by Dominique Fils-Aimé

2015

2 min. 30 – HD
Director

Namoya – Moe Clark

2014

5 min. – HD
Director

Dear Ex – Dominique Fils-Aimé

2012

3 min. – HD
Director

Awards

FESTIVALS
Official selection at the Toronto Independent Film Festival 2013

First Forum of African Elected Women (Premier Forum des Femmes Élues Africaines)

2011

24 min. – HD | Marocco
Produced by the Ministry of the Interior of Morocco and the Canadian International Development Agency
*Broadcast at the 4th UCLG Congress (World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders) - October 2013
*3500 copies distributed in the 1503 communes, the 75 provinces and prefectures and the central administrations of Morocco

Diversité Artistique Montréal – DAM

2014

Production of a teaser and 10 capsules for Diversité Artistique Montreal's event for the release of the magazine Tic Art Toc at Bain Mathieu on May 22nd, 2014

Jury – PRIM

2021

Jury for the PRIM creation program

Communication consultant for multimedia strategy - UNICEF Tchad

2016-2017

Freelance text animator - M&H Graphics

2015-2016

Instructor - NDI (National Democratic Institute)

2011

« Parole, on tourne ! » Training in front of the camera for newly elected women in Niger's parliament - Niger

Teacher's assistant - New York Film Academy

2008 - 2009

Assistant Editor - Documentary "Little White Lie

2008

Documentary directed by Lacey Schwartz - released in 2014 on NETFLIX
New York

Cameraman and editor - Nuevo Mundo Television

2007

Montreal

New York Film Academy

2007-2008

Intensive training (11 months) on the filmmaking process

New York Film Academy

June to August 2006

Intensive summer training (2 months) on the filmmaking process

Cours Florent (France)

2004-2006

May 2014 - " University of Montreal " After Effects Workshop

March to April 2014 - " INIS : Institut National de l'Image et du Son " Microprogram : Photography Direction

January 2013 - " AQTIS " AQTIS 101 Course