Zézé Gamboa

José Augusto Octávio Gamboa dos Passos, known as Zézé Gamboa (born 1955) is an Angolan film director.

Life

Zézé Gamboa was born in Luanda in 1955.[1] He started working as a news producer in Angolan television in May 1974. In 1980 he moved to Europe, spending nine years in Paris and another seven years in Belgium before eventually settling in Lisbon.[2]

Gamboa started film-making by making documentaries. He also worked on Foreign Land (1995), directed by Walter Salles, and Napomuceno's Will, Francisco Manso's 1997 film adaptation of Germano Almeida's novel The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo.[1]

The Hero (2004) tells the story of a man attempting to recover his stolen prosthetic limb in an Angola trying to rebuild itself after the civil war. It received the Jury Prize for World Cinema at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, among over 25 film festival awards.[3]

Critic Olivier Barlet has characterized Gamboa's The Great Kilapy (2012), "a burlesque biopic about a professional swindler" in 1970s Angola, as using farce to "reveal the extent to which the contradictions of the colony already bore the seeds of decolonization".[4]

Films

References
  1. Ivonete Pinto, Entrevista: Zézé Gamboa, Orson, No. 4, 2013.
  2. Marta Lanka, An approach to film making in Angola that is consistent, mature and upright: interview with Zézé Gamboa, buala.org, 10 January 2011.
  3. Mark Sabine, Rebuilding the Angolan Body Politic: Global and local projections of identity and protest in O Herói/The Hero (Zézé Gamboa, 2004), Journal of African Cinemas, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.201-219. ISSN 1754-9221.
  4. Barlet, Olivier (2016). Contemporary African Cinema. MSU Press. p. 249. ISBN 978-1-62895-270-4.
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