Charles Mensah
Charles Mensah  yari umukinnyi wa firime wa Gabon, umwanditsi wa sinema akaba n'umuyobozi ushinzwe umusaruro. Azwi cyane ku izina rya "The Gentleman of African Cinemas", Mensah yagize uruhare muri documentaire nyinshi zamamaye cyane nka Équateur, Les Couilles de l'éléphant na Lybek, ipfunwe ry'abazima .  Yakoze nk'umuntu uharanira iterambere rya sinema yigenga yo mu majyepfo mu mwuga umaze imyaka irenga mirongo itatu.

Ubuzima bwite 
Yavutse mu 1948 i Omboué, muri Gabon . Yapfuye ku ya 3 Kamena 2011, afite imyaka 63.

Umwuga 
Mu 1976, yakoze ibihimbano bye bya mbere, Obali afatanya na Pierre-Marie Ndong. Hanyuma mu 1977 yakoze umushinga wa kabiri Ayouma afatanya na Ndong na Patience Dabany. Intsinzi yo gukora amafilime, Mensah yagize uruhare mu gutunganya, kuri iyi nshuro hamwe na filime Équateur, yasinyiye Serge Gainsbourg . Hamwe n’umukinnyi wa filime uzwi cyane Henri-Joseph Koumba Bididi mu 1995, Mensah yagize uruhare muri televiziyo L'Auberge du Salut, filime yuzuye ya Gabon. 

Nkumuproducer, Mensah yitabiriye ibikorwa byinshi birimo: Le Damier de Balufu Bakupu Kanyinda mu 1996, Dôlè (l'Argent) na Imunga Iwanga mu 2000, Les Couilles de l'éléphant mu 2001 na N'Djamena City iyobowe na Issa Serge Coelo mu 2006. Yagize kandi uruhare muri documentaire ngufi kuri Lybek, le crunch du vivant . Kugeza mu 2009, yari afite umwanya wo kuba Umuyobozi mukuru w'ikigo cy'igihugu cya Sinema ya Gabon (CENACI), ubu kikaba kizwi ku izina rya Gabonese Institute of Image and Sound (IGIS). Muri uwo mwaka, yabaye perezida w’ishyirahamwe ry’abakora amafilime muri Pan-Afurika (FEPACI) ndetse no muri komisiyo ishinzwe ikigega cyo gufasha amafilime y’umuryango mpuzamahanga w’igifaransa. Muri 2011, yakoraga muri Bididi's Le collier du Makoko yamenyekanye ku rwego mpuzamahanga harimo na Cannes .

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