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
Métis
In development
Feature film - Fiction
Director
Par amour
In development
Webseries
Director
Amani
2018-2020
Short film | 17 min
Director
Produced by Résidence avec les Films de l'Autre
Poulain d'argent - Festival Panafricain du Cinéma de Ouagadougou, 2021
Official selection at the festival REGARD - Competition for the Canadian Grand Prize - June 2021
Selection at the 17th Gala Prends ça court, winner of the PÉRIPHÉRIA award and two jury mentions - May 2021
FESTIVALS
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie - Official selection, 2021
Selected by SODEC to represent Quebec at the Marché du Court de Clermont-Ferrand - January 2021
Education In Emergencies
2017
Short film | 2 min
Director
Produced by UNICEF Chad
Videos for artistes
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 the Musée des beaux-arts du Canada - April 9 to August 30, 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 21, 2015
Selection of the GIV (Groupe Intervention Vidéo)
Videoclips
Sombras – Mamselle Ruiz
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
FESTIVALS
Sélection officielle au « Toronto Independent Film Festival 2013 »
Documentaire
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
Video Capsules
Diversité Artistique Montréal – DAM
2014
Production of a teaser and 10 capsules for Diversité Artistique Montréal's event for the release of the magazine Tic Art Toc at Bain Mathieu on May 22, 2014
Other professional experience
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
Montréal
Education
"New York Film Academy" Intensive training (11 months) in the filmmaking process
2007-2008
"New York Film Academy" Intensive summer training (2 months) on the filmmaking process
June to August 2006
Cours Florent (France)
2004-2006
Further Training
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