Name
Laza
Professional Area
Director, Producer, Festival Director
Company
APASER AFRICA – MADAGASCOURT FILM FESTIVAL
ROZIFILMS is an Antananarivo-based film production company founded in 2001, active in production, co-production and executive production in Madagascar. Through its close connection with Madagascourt / Rencontres du Film Court, it has helped support and reveal a new generation of Malagasy filmmakers. ROZIFILMS is also linked to a wider Pan-African cinema network through APASER, the Pan-African Alliance of Screenwriters and Directors, working for authors’ rights, professional cooperation and the development of African cinema.
Country
Madagascar
Accreditation
BIO TO B | DOC
Laza is a Malagasy filmmaker, producer and cultural leader, founding director of the Rencontres du Film Court de Madagasikara and Officer of the Order of Arts, Letters and Culture of Madagascar. Trained in film directing in Paris at LA FÉMIS and ESEC, he founded ROZIFILMS and has supported many emerging Malagasy filmmakers. He is deeply involved in the revival of cinema in Madagascar and in African authors’ rights as President of APASER, board member of FEPACI and AVACI, and curator-director at Encontro de Cinema Negro Zózimo Bulbul in Rio.