Noted film director, Flora Gomes, hails from the picturesque region of Bissau-Guinea, specifically the quaint town of Cadique, Guinea-Bissau, where he was born on December 31, 1949.
Notably, Gomes's directorial debut, Mortu Nega (Death Denied),released in 1988, stands as a pivotal moment in Guinea-Bissau's cinematic heritage, as the first fiction film and the second feature film ever produced within the country's borders.
Interestingly, the initial foray into feature filmmaking, N'tturudu, was directed by Umban u'Kest in 1987, a mere decade following Guinea-Bissau's attainment of independence in 1974.
Gomes's directorial debut, Mortu Nega (Death Denied),released in 1988, marked a significant milestone in Guinea-Bissau's cinematic history as the first fiction film and the second feature film ever produced in the country.
Interestingly, the first feature film, N’tturudu, was directed by Umban u’Kest in 1987, just ten years after Guinea-Bissau gained independence, a testament to the country's rapid growth and development in the field of cinema.
The following biographical details are carefully extracted from the comprehensive online encyclopedia article dedicated to the life and achievements of Flora Gomes, whose contents are made available to the public under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
