WMohamed Ben Attia, born January 5, 1976 in Tunis, is a Tunisian director and screenwriter.
WFaouzi Bensaïdi is a Moroccan film director, actor, screenwriter and artist. His film A Thousand Months was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
WFérid Boughedir is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter.
WNouri Bouzid is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films between 1986 and 2006. His film Man of Ashes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Three years later, his film Golden Horseshoes was screened in the same section at the 1989 festival.
WTahar Cheriaa was a Tunisian film critic and the founder of the Carthage Film Festival in 1966.
WMahamat-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 International Film Festival. The 2010 feature film A Screaming Man won the Jury Prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, making Haroun the first Chadian director to enter, as well as win, an award in the main Cannes competition.
WGaston Kaboré is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry. He has won awards for his films Wend Kuuni and Buud Yam.
WAryan Kaganof is a South African film maker, novelist, poet and fine artist. In 1999 he changed his name to Aryan Kaganof.
WWayne Kramer is a filmmaker and storyboard artist. Kramer has written and directed films such as the 2003 film The Cooler, which garnered an Oscar nomination for its star Alec Baldwin, as well as two Golden Globe nominations for Baldwin and Maria Bello. He also adapted his 1995 short film "Crossing Over" into a feature-length version which starred Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd and Jim Sturgess, and was released by the Weinstein Company in 2009. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Mindhunters, but the final script was heavily rewritten by others and bore little resemblance to Kramer's original work.
WFadika Kramo-Lanciné is an Ivorian film director as well as a screenwriter and producer of both fiction and documentary films.
WJoseph Kumbela is an actor and filmmaker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who has won awards for his acting.
WRoger Gnoan M'Bala is an Ivorian film director. Born in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, he studied history in Paris and film at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français (CLCF) and later on in Sweden. From 1968 to 1978, he worked for the Radiodiffusion Télévision ivoirienne (RTI). before creating the 1970 black and white documentary on the traditional dance Koundoum. In 1972 he won the Silver Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival with the short Amanie and several other awards including a FIFEF. Thereafter he produced independently a short, Valisy and a medium-length satirical film, Le Chapeau. In 1984 he directed his first feature film, Ablakon. He became known thanks to hisfilm Au nom du Christ, winning in 1993 a premio giovani at the Locarno International Film Festival and an Étalon de Yennenga at the FESPACO.
WNasr Mahrous Abdel Masih Tanious is an Egyptian music producer, director, lyricist, and composer best known for his record label FreeMusic art production company.
WLaila Marrakchi is a Moroccan film maker most famous for the controversial film Marock. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. She is married to film director Alexandre Aja. She grew up in the upper class Casablanca milieu that is portrayed in Marock.
WDjo Tunda Wa Munga is a Congolese film director and producer. For his 2010 thriller movie Viva Riva! he won the award for Best Director at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2011. Viva Riva! also won at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards for Best African Movie
WSandra Nashaat is an Egyptian film director.
WYousry Nasrallah is an Egyptian film director.
WJoséphine Ndagnou is a Cameroonian film director and television actress.
WNana Obiri - Yeboah is a Ghanaian film director. He is known for the 2015 film The Cursed Ones, which received 13 nominations at the Africa Movie Academy Awards, including Best Film and Best Director.
WKollo Daniel Sanou is a Burkinabé film director as well as a screenwriter and producer of both fiction and documentary films.
WAbu Bakr “A.B.” Shawky is an Egyptian-Austrian writer and director. His first feature film, Yomeddine, was selected to participate in the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and was screened in the Main Competition section and compete for the Palme d'Or.
WJideofor Kenechukwu Achufusi is a Nigerian actor and model, best known for his portrayal of Nnamdi Okeke in Living in Bondage: Breaking Free, as well as Neo in Trace TV’s campus drama series Crazy, Lovely, Cool. Also known professionally as Swanky JKA, he won the Trailblazer award at the 2020 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards.
WMahmoud Zulfikar was an Egyptian film director and actor. He directed 40 films between 1947 and 1968. His 1964 film Soft Hands was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.