Eugénie Metala

Genre: Documentary

Country: Cameroon

Year: 2024.

Duration: 31′.

Language: French.

Direction: Eugénie Metala

Screenplay: Eugénie Metala and Jean Marie Teno

Photography: Mgane Tamo, Jean Marc Anda and Jean Marie Teno (C)

Editing: Eugénie Metala, Suzie Kouam Music: Ruben Binam, Chorale St. Ambroise

Sound: Joseph Blater Fotso, Kevin Mbella

Voice: Myriam Zouga

Performers: Sœur Marie Joseph, Rithe Ngare Ndongo, Jean-Pierre Dikongue Pipa. Gérard Essomba, Josépha Mintsa, Blaise Nnomo Zanga, Marie Marguerite Andza and the pensioners of Béthanie Viacam.

Production: Jean Marie Teno – Bandjoun Film Studio

SYNOPSIS

An anonymous grave between those of her parents, a dilapidated cinema on the premises of the Ministry of Arts and Culture: these are the signs of Sita Bella’s passage on earth. Yet she was the first female journalist, the first female pilot in Cameroon, one of the first African filmmakers whose film “Tam Tam à Paris” was selected for the first edition of FESPACO in 1969. Paying tribute to this exceptional woman is the challenge of this first work by a young director, Eugénie Metala, mentored by Jean Marie Teno.