{{Short description|Congolese screenwriter (born 1976)}} {{infobox person | name = Mamadi Indoka | image = mamadi.jpg | alt = | caption = Mamadi Indoka | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1976}} | birth_place = Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Director and screenwriter | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Mamadi Indoka''' is a Congolese director and screenwriter born 7 November 1976 in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
== Biography == Indoka first encountered the world of cinema in 2002 with a short film shown in Madrid and decided to take up the practice of the seventh art. He studied cinema in Canada and the United States, where he became a director and screenwriter.
In 2005, he wrote and directed his first short, ''Une nuit d'enfer'' (A Night of Hell). In 2006, he wrote and directed another short, ''La Beauté de la mort'' (The Beauty of Death), then, in 2007, directed his first full-length feature, ''32 ans après'' (32 Years After), written by Sebastiao Ndombasi. This film told the story of a man who returns to Angola 32 years after having fled war there, and is treated like a foreigner.<ref name=mc>{{cite web |url=https://www.mediacongo.net/publireportage-reportage-10076_mamadi_indoka_seuls_les_producteurs_peuvent_denicher_des_talents_caches.html |language= French |title=Mamadi Indoka : " Seuls les producteurs peuvent dénicher des talents cachés " |date=May 15, 2015 |access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref>
In 2008, he wrote and directed the documentary ''La Pêche artisanale'' (Artisanal Fishing),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://africultures.com/films/?no=12972 | title=2008:Pêche artisanale (La)|publisher=Africultures}}</ref> and in 2010, he directed two shorts: ''Le Sida'' (AIDS), written by Lionel Mwedi Malila, and ''Victime'' (Victim) which he wrote himself. In 2010 he filmed his second full-length feature, ''L'héritage envahi'' (The Invaded Heritage), written and directed by Mamadi Indoka with the support of Congo Films Productions, his production company. This second feature told the story of a heinous crime, an entire family murdered by a trusted bodyguard, who spared only an infant. He abandoned the child in a forest, certain it would die of natural causes. But years later the child, now a grown man, sets outs out to seek revenge.<ref name=mc /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201011050654.html |publisher=allAfrica |date=5 November 2010 |title=Congo-Kinshasa: Tournage du film "L'héritage envahi", l'histoire d'une famille massacrée |access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref> This may have been the earliest Congolese thriller, since it came out a year before ''Viva Riva!''.
==Filmography== === Director and screenwriter === * 2005 : ''Une nuit d'enfer'', (''A Night of Hell'') (short) * 2006 : ''La Beauté de la mort'' (''The Beauty of Death'') (short) * 2007 : ''32 ans après'' (''32 Years After'') (feature) * 2008 : ''La Pêche artisanale'' (''Artisanal Fishing'') (documentary) * 2010 : ''Le Sida'' (''AIDS'') (short) * 2010 : ''Victime'' (''Victim'') (short) * 2010 : ''Héritage envahi'' (''Invaded Heritage'') (feature), with Junior Lusaulu, Roch Bodo Bokabela, Annie Lukayisu, Elombe Sukari, Sarah Musau<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinephilazr.pagesperso-orange.fr/fiche_INDOKA_Mamadi.htm |title=Mamadi INDOKA |publisher=cinephilazr }}</ref> * 2011 : ''Kuluna'' (''Kuluna'') (short) * 2013 : ''Une vie de souffrance'' (''A Life of Suffering'') (documentary) * 2014 : ''Mokili'' (''Mokili'') (short)
== See also == {{portal|Africa|Film}} *Cinema of Africa *List of African films *Cinema of the Democratic Republic of the Congo *List of Democratic Republic of the Congo films
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons}} *[https://www.mamadiindoka.com Mamadiindoka] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416132317/http://www.mamadiindoka.com/ |date=2016-04-16 }} *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVRKc4QtOD4 Teaser Héritage envahi]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Indoka, Mamadi}} Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo film directors Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriates in France Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo screenwriters Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:People from Kinshasa