Issa Serge Coelo is a Chad

Chad

Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...

ian film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

. Born in Biltine

Biltine, Chad

Biltine is a city in Chad, and the capital of Wadi Fira region .The town was briefly captured on November 25, 2006 by the RADF, a rebel group, then recaptured the next day by the government, along with nearby Abéché that had been captured by a different rebel group, the UFDD...

, Chad, he studied history in Paris and film at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle

Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle

Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle is a French educational academy which specialises in the training of cinema, television, photography, sound engineering and digital art through the Desra diploma.ESRA was created in 1972 in Paris by Max Azoulay.In 2007 the school created a fourth year...

 (ESRA). He then worked as a cameraman at Métropole Télévision, France 3

France 3

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, TV5MONDE

TV5MONDE

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 and CFI

CFI

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 before creating the 1994 short film Un taxi pour Aouzou. The film was well-received, being nominated for a 1997 César Award

César Award

The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma....

 in the category Best Short Film

César Award for Best Short Film

The César Award for Best Short Film is a category of the César Awards, France's national film award.The winners since its inauguration in 1992 have been:...

 - Fiction. This was followed by the feature films Daresalam

Daresalam

Daresalam is a 2000 dramatic film by Chadian director Issa Serge Coelo. It has been considered one of the very few recent African films that has treated the theme of the internecine conflicts that have ravaged the African continent since independence...

(2000) and Tartina City (2006). He also portrayed himself in the 1999 film Bye Bye Africa

Bye Bye Africa

Bye Bye Africa is a 1999 award winning Chadian film. It was the first by Chadian director Mahamat Saleh Haroun, who also starred. The docu-drama centers on a fictionalized version of Haroun.- Plot :...

, which was directed by Chad's other prominent director Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is a film director from Chad who has lived in France since 1982. He made his first feature film, Bye Bye Africa, in 1999. His second feature, Abouna, won best cinematography award at FESPACO, while his third, Daratt, won the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 63rd Venice...

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External links

• Issa Serge Coelo at IMDB
• Daresalam with brief director bio from diplomatie.gouv.fr