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Taxi Sister

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© Courtesy of CinemAfrica 2011, Stockholm
Genre : Biography
Type : Documentary
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2011
Format : Short
Running time : 28 (in minutes)

TAXI SISTER is a documentary about Boury Mbaye, a female taxi driver in Dakar, Senegal. As a woman behind the wheel she leads a busy life filled with everyday drama, and constantly grapples with society's view and expectations on women. The film is based on the Taxi Sister project, which was started by the Senegalese state in 2007 with the aim of encouraging female entrepreneurs. Ten women were offered the opportunity to get a drivers license and buy a car on credit. Today there are fifteen women taxi drivers in Dakar, which is nothing compared to the fifteen thousand male taxi drivers.

TAXI SISTER is Theresa Traoré Dahlberg's final year film at Stockholm Academy for Dramatic Arts where she is studying to become a film producer.

A film by Theresa Traore Dahlberg | 00:30 | 2011 | Senegal, Sweden

Film Directing
Theresa Traoré Dahlberg - Sweden

A film by Theresa Traore Dahlberg

Sweden - 2011 - 30 mn - HD - 16/9 - Colour

Director
Theresa Traore Dahlberg

Writer
Theresa Traore Dahlberg

Camera
Senay Berhe

Sound
Patrik Strömdahl

Editing
Theresa Traore Dahlberg, Senay Berhe, Magnus Berg

Production
Theresa Traore Dahlberg,
c/o Sophia Ericksson, Lundagatan 49,
11728 Stockholm - Sweden
Tél : +46 72 2222 180
E-mail : theresatraoredahlberg@gmail.com

Sales
Production
Theresa Traoré Dahlberg
co Sophia ericksson, Lundagatan 49,
11728 Stockholm - Sweden
Tél : +46 72 2222 180
Email: theresatraoredahlberg@gmail.com


2012 | FIPA (Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels | BIARRITZ, France
* Creative documentaries
www.fipa.tm.fr/en/programs/2012/taxi-sister-23278.htm

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SE
TAXI SISTER är en dokumentär skildring av den kvinnliga taxichauffören Bourys vardag i Dakar, Senegal. om kvinna bakom ratten lever hon ett fartfyllt liv med påtaglig vardagsdramatik och hon brottas dagligen med samhällets syn på hur en kvinna förväntas vara.

Filmen bygger på ett projekt med samma namn, TAXI SISTER, som startade i Senegal 2007, som ett initiativ från staten för att uppmuntra kvinnliga entreprenörer. Tio kvinnor valdes ut, de fick ta transportkörkort och erhöll en bil på avbetalning. Idag finns det 15 kvinnliga taxichaufförer på Dakars gator, men det är fortfarande inte mycket jämfört med de 15 000 taximännen.

Regissör: Theresa Traoré Dahlberg
2011, Sverige, 28 min, Wolof och franska, engelsk text

Source:
http://cinemafrica.se/sv/filmer/dokumentarer/217-taxi-sisters

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