Senegalese Actor, director, screenwriter and producer.

Ababacar SAMB Makharam (1934-1987) is an Actor (Stage & Film), Film Director, Screenwriter and Film producer (Baobab Films).

He is known for TAMANGO (1957, Actor), LES TRIPES AU SOLEIL (1958, Actor), ET LA NEIGE N'ÉTAIT PLUS (1966, Director / Screenwriter), KODOU (1971, Director / Screenwriter / Producer), JOM (1981, Director / Screenwriter / Producer).

Ababacar SAMB-Makharam was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1934 and trained as an actor at the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche in Paris. From 1959 to 1962 he studied filmmaking at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome (Italy), after which he returned to France and worked as an assistant director in television. On returning to Senegal, Samb worked as a cameraman for Senegalese TV news. In 1965 he made his first film, ET LA NEIGE N'ÉTAIT PLUS, followed by KODOU (1971) and JOM (1981). Samb served as the Secretary General of the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) from 1971 to 1977. He passed away in October 1987 at the age of 52 in Dakar, Senegal.

His Filmography (abstracts)
1957 : TAMANGO (feature) /// Dir: John BERRY /// Actor
1958 : LES TRIPES AU SOLEIL (feature) /// Dir: Claude BERNARD-AUBERT /// Actor
1961 : L'Ubriaco (L'Ivresse) (Short) (Graduation Film, Italy) /// Director, Screenwriter
1966 : Et la neige n'était plus (Short) /// Director, Screenwriter
1968 : La Terre et le paysan (Doc) /// Director, Screenwriter, Producer
1971 : Kodou /// Director, Screenwriter, Producer (Georges Sadou Award, France)
1982 : Jom (or The Story of a People) /// Director, Screenwriter, Producer (Critics Week, Cannes FilmFest)

WEB
www.semainedelacritique.com/en/directors/ababacar-samb-makharam
www.trigon-film.org/en/directors/Ababacar_Samb_Makharam
updated by Thierno I. DIA, on 30 July 2022