Biography
Carlos de Jesus
Carlos de Jesus is a storyteller and teacher who expresses himself through photography, film and writing. He is an Associate Professor, at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Carlos de Jesus is a key participant on the First World Order Project, a long-term telecommunications project that focuses on traditional as well as contemporary expressions of African cultural practice throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, India, and the Pacific Islands, and has lectured on black American film production in Africa under sponsorship of the United States Embassy.
Carlos directed The Performed Word, a National Endowment for the Humanities docudrama on an African-American preacher. He was producer-director of New Voice (PBS), WGBH, Boston, and Sonrisas (PBS), KLRN, Austin. He was a line producer-director on the PBS/NBC series, Watch Your Mouth! for WNET/Thirteen, New York, and executive producer-director of Imágenes, for NJN, Trenton. In 1996, his video documentary That Old Gang of Mine was broadcast on Thirteen/ WNET; it won the CINE Gold Eagle (1997). In 2012 he produced his latest feature-length video documentary, Garifuna Nation. His most recent artist’s book is In the Knot of Time (2015), from which excerpts are currently in exhibit through November 5 at El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan.
His fellowships include Fulbright (France), John Hay Whitney, New York State Creative Artist Program, New York State Council on the Arts (Media), New York Foundation for the Arts (Film), and Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants. Photography, film and video work has been exhibited in New York City at the Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, El Museo del Barrio, International Center of Photography and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and screened in California, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Claude Oudey
Claude Oudey is a media artist. He collaborated and produced various cultural programs on radio and in print:
France Culture: Conversations with: Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Jean Rouch, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
France Culture: Reportages on African and Caribbean cultural stages.
Radio Nova: Conversations / Reportages on African and Caribbean cultural stages.
Radio Ivres: African diaspora and Caribbean music section.
Libération: reportages on Puerto Rico, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Mali.
Africa Magazine: Diasporic cultural stages, London/Paris.
Ivoire Dimanche: Diasporic cultural stages, London/Paris.
BL Press London: Diasporic cultural stages.
Cultural Publication: Le monde noir à Paris (Black world in Paris). Edition Autrement.
Art & Media: Director for Highlife, a short video for the Comité ethnographique du film, showcased at the Cinémathèque de Paris. Production of radio programs Paris la nuit (Paris by Night) / Dialogue dans la nuit (Dialogue in the night).
Artistic productions: installations, collages on paper/digital, photographies plasticiennes (contemporary and artistic photography).
Lydie Diakhaté
Lydie Diakhaté is an Independent Film Producer and art critic specializing in the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. Founder of K’a Yelema Productions in Paris, co-founder and director of the Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra/Ghana (2006-2012).
Her recent works include:
The directing of the documentary One Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards (49 min., 2016)
The curating at the Kimmel Center Windows/New York University of: “Alien Script, Drawings by Walter Mosley” (2013); “The World of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, and his object teaching” (2012); “Stars of Ethiopia”, a solo photo exhibition with Chester Higgins from the New York Times (2011).
Publications (selection):
“Melvin Edwards and the Poetic of a Blacksmith,” Wasafiri Magazine UK, Routledge (August 2015); Black Renaissance USA, May 2016.
“Documentary film in Africa and the Diaspora: From Images to Emancipation” in Cinema africano: novas formas esteticas e politicas, Edition Sextante, Portugal, 2011.
“Museum Ethics, Missing Voices and the Case of the Maisons Tropicales” in Museum Management and Curatorship, published by Routledge, Spring 2011.
website: kayelemaproductions.wordpress.com