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Burn It Up Djassa ( Cote D’Ivoire 2012 )

Color: Fiction, color, 70’

Direction: Lonesome Solo

Screenplay: Lonesome Solo, Soumahoro Yacouba, Sanogo Ange Ali, Delphine Jaquet

Director of Photography: Delphine Jaquet

Sound: Mathieu Deniau

Music: Jean-Charly Rabet

Editing: Delphine Jaquet

Cast: Konaté Abdoul Karim Ouattara Adelaïde Diomandé Mamadou Bamba Mohamed

Production: Wassakara Productions

Synopsis

In the busy streets of Abidjan, Tony, an out of school young man, sells cigarettes to get money. But he will turn to violence. Filmed in 11 days with a young neighborhood who invented their own slang, Burn it up Djassa renews the cinema in Côte d’Ivoire.

Réalisateur

Born in 1986 in Abidjan, Lonesome Solo grew up in the neighborhoods of the Ivorian capital. He defines himself as a child of the ghetto. Passionate about cinema, he took correspondence courses and started making movies with friends. He has directed three short films. "Burn it up Djassa" is his first feature film.