BIOGRAPHY

Jacqueline Kalimunda was born in Kigali, Rwanda 31 years ago and lived in numerous countries before settling in Paris.

After graduating in business and in history she started working first in production then as an editor for 7 years on documentaries  (with Jean Xavier de Lestrade on The justice of men…) and on short and middle lenght feature films.
She also worked on television series as continuity girl (Fatou directed by Daniel Vigne braodcasted by France2…).

Finally she wrote, directed and co-produced her first film in 2002, a 23 minute short film called About Braids that was awarded numerous prizes included the best short film award in Milan 2003.

Homeland is the conclusion of a long project started when she was researching images of Rwanda for her graduation thesis with historians Jean Pierre Chrétien and Hélène d’Almeida Topor.
She is now preparing her first feature film.

FILMOGRAPHY

HOMELAND
(90mn – DV 16mm and super 8mm) – 2005 documentary
Production : Emile Furieux Production and Simba Notes
With the contribution of Centre National de la Cinematographie (France) and Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture (Rwanda)

ABOUT BRAIDS
(23 mn – 35mm) – 2002 fiction
with Laurentine Milebo and Penda Niang
Production : GREC and Jacqueline Kalimunda
Venice Film festival 2003 – City of Venice Prize
Milan African film festival 2003 – Best short film
Zanzibar International Film Festival 2003 – Best Short film
Cozes Film Festival (France) 2003 – Public Prize
Montreal Film festival 2004 – Special Mention

Also presented in numerous festivals such as
London IFF 2003, Clermont Ferrand 2003,
FESPACO 2003, Toronto IFF 2003, Rio, Durban…
Broadcasted on TV5 and CFI.

Part of the contemporary African art exhibition in London African Remix (Feb-April 2005) at the Hayward Gallery and the contemporary African art exhibition The Pigozzi Collection in Houston, TEXAS (Museum of Fine Art).

Distributed in the USA and in the UK.