Cheikh A. Bamba Diop has over 15 years of experience in social and cultural communication in Senegal, including documentary filmmaking, youth programs, and art projects. He has a diploma in social and audiovisual communication from the University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar and has taken courses at Yale University. Some of his documentary films focus on Senegalese culture and arts. He currently works as the founder and director of Kerdoff Productions, a film and art production company in Senegal.

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Cheikh A. Bamba Diop
West Villa, Almshouses, Flat B
Balls Pond Road
London N1 4AH
Phone: 07482 561001
Email: callmebamba@hotmail.com
Social and Cultural Mediator
I am a Senegalese social and cultural mediator with a strong experience in documentary
filmmaking. I have more than 15 years’ experience in social and cultural communication,
especially within youth networks. I have been working on numerous art, film and social
projects promoting Senegalese urban culture.
Education
Experience in the
Media
2016 (Spring term) Yale University (USA)
Courses:
Documentary Film Workshop (Professor Charles Musser)
Close Analysis of Film (Professor John Connor)
1999 to 2003 Média-Centre Dakar - University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar
(Senegal)
Advanced professional training Directing Documentary (part-time)
1998-1999 Média-Centre Dakar - University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar
(Senegal)
Diploma in Social and Audiovisual communication
1996 Youth Worker Diploma, Club Unesco/ University Cheikh Anta Diop
Dakar (Senegal)
1995 Baccalauréat A3 (literature major), Lycée Malick Sy, Thiès
(Senegal)
2016
Yale Environmental Film Festival (USA)
Jury member and Festival advisor
Citizen TV, New Haven (USA)
Producer and cameraman of TV programmes for local minorities to build
community through media
2011-Present
Kerdoff Productions (Film and Art Production Company)
Founder and Director
Film Projects:
- ‘Les vérités du fou’ (The Truths of a Madman): Director and
scriptwriter of a 52’ documentary on the life and poetry of the

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Experience in
Social and Cultural
Communication
Senegalese writer Thierno Seydou Sall.
- ‘Murmures’ (Whisperings): Director and scriptwriter of a 20’
documentary on urban cultures in Dakar.
- ‘Le serpent dans le trou’ (The Snake in the Hole): Producer of a
31’ documentary on traditional mining in Senegal.
- ‘L’école de Dakar’ (The Dakar Art School): Assistant Director of a
52’ documentary on Senegal first president’s support policy to
Senegalese classical arts.
2013
Orchid Project (UK NGO fighting against female genital cutting)
Filming and directing of an Orchid documentary against female genital
cutting in Senegal with Rap Singer Sister Fa, Orchid’s project
ambassador.
2009
Ciné-Banlieue (Dakar Youth Film Association)
Educational Advisor and Member of Production Team; organization of
film workshops in Pikine (a socially deprived suburb of Dakar)
Cornelia Strasser (Swiss independent filmmaker)
Senegal Production Co-ordinator for “Parler au Peuple” (Talking to the
People) on Senegalese musical culture, a film by Cornelia Strasser
(2014)
2008
Education without Mutilation Film Project
Cameraman, co-road manager and media officer for the film “Education
without Mutilation” on female singer Sister Fa’s 2008 tour around
Senegal speaking out against female circumcision. Film project
supported by Goethe Institut-Dakar and Tostan NGO
1998 to 2008
Film du Quartier Festival (Project run by Média-Centre Dakar to bring film
screenings to deprived neighbourhoods of outskirts of Dakar)
Organizer and Co-ordinator for rotating screening locations
2010-2012
Loman Art House (South African Private Art Foundation in Dakar)
Art curator, communication and administrative manager of Loman Art
House
2004 to 2008
Senecorps (American-Senegalese NGO run by Senegalese doctors and
U.S. medical students)
Program coordinator of Community Partnership for Health and
Development in south-eastern Senegal
2004 Barcelona international Youth Festival
Member of the Senegalese Preparatory Committee
Since 2006
WAGYN (West African Global Youth Network)
Co-founder member; co-ordinator of youth projects against drug abuse

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and HIV/AIDS in West Africa
2003
UNODC (United National Office on Drugs and Crime)
Participant an international workshop on the evaluation and monitoring of
youth-destined drug prevention projects
2001-2003
ASPAT (Senegalese Association for Peace and Against Alcohol and
Drug Addiction) Dakar (Senegal)
Youth Co-ordinator, Communication Co-ordinator of Project ACC (Action
Against Cannabis)
In charge of ASPAT’s translation office (English-French)
UNODC (United National Office on Drugs and Crime)
Participant an international workshop on the evaluation and monitoring of
youth-destined drug prevention projects
2001
Regard d’enfant (A Child’s View) Project
Co-ordinator of art workshop
1998 to 2000
ASPAT
Secretary-General of ASPAT Thiès local branch (Senegal)
Jankeen Art (performance and visual art youth collective)
Founding member; curator of 3 art exhibitions in Thiès (Senegal)
1999
Juvente Norway
Participation in international youth camp on racism and drug awareness
Languages Native: French, Wolof
Fluent: English
References
Professor Charles Musser
Professor of Film and Media Studies
Director, Yale Summer Film Institute
Yale University
53 Wall Street
PO Box 208363
New Haven, Ct. 06511
USA
Phone: +1 917-880-5321
Email: charles.musser@yale.edu
Gilbert Diatta
WAGYN (West African Global Youth Network)
Regional Co-ordinator West Africa Office
Director of ASPAT Senegal
Km1, Avenue Chekh A. Diop x Canal 4 – Dakar
Senegal
Phone: +221- 77 137 46 20 or 76 948 46 45
Email: wagyndk@gmail.com