Djo Tunda Wa Munga was born in 1972, in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo). He went to the National Film School of Belgium, INSAS in his early twenties. After living in Europe, he returned to the DRC and established a film production company dedicated to training young filmmakers. He has directed several medium-length documentaries, including HORIZON EN TRANSITION (2005) and in 2010 he's made the acclaimed documentary STATE OF MIND (Dok.Fest, Doc Point), and produced CONGO IN FOUR ACTS in 2009 (a series of films which are the first DRC-directed documentaries) which premiered at the Berlinale in 2010 and has screened at over 50 festivals to date.
He completed shooting his feature film debut VIVA RIVA! (2010) that premiered at the Toronto Int. Film Festival in 2010, and Berlinale in 2011. In 2011 the film won six African Movie Academy Awards and MTV's first ?Best African Movie' award.


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Nato in Congo, Djo Tunda Wa Munga studia regia all'INSAS, la scuola dell'arte dello spettacolo belga. Nel 2009 firma il suo primo lungometraggio, Papy, seguito nel 2010 da Viva Riva! Parallelamente alla sua attività di regista, Djo Tunda Wa Munga è anche produttore. Ha recentemente prodotto i due documentari Congo in Four Acts (2010), per la regia di Dieudo Hamadi, Kiripi Katembo Siku e Divita Wa Lusala, e State of Mind (2010) di Munga Tunda Djo.

2010 Viva Riva!
2009 Papy

Source: Locarno 2012
www.pardolive.ch/it/catalogue/person.html?pid=608349&sl=it
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Djo Tunda Wa Munga, im Kongo geboren, studierte Film am INSAS in Belgien. 2009 drehte er seinen ersten langen Film, Papy, und im Jahr darauf folgte Viva Riva!. Djo Tunda Wa Munga ist auch als Produzent tätig - etwa für die Dokumentarfilme Congo in Four Acts (2010) von Dieudo Hamadi, Kiripi Katembo Siku und Divita Wa Lusala, sowie Munga Tunda Djos State of Mind (2010).

Source: Locarno 2012
www.pardolive.ch/de/catalogue/person.html?pid=608349&sl=de
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Om regissören
Djo Tunda wa Munga föddes i DR Kongo och flyttade som 10-åring till Belgien, där han utbildade sig vid National Film School of Belgium och sedan återvände till DRC. Utöver sina egna filmer har han även startat Demokratiska Republiken Kongos första produktionsbolag Suka Productions. Viva Riva! väckte stor uppmärksamhet då den visades på Berlin International Film Festival 2011. Tidigare har Munga bland annat regisserat Congo in Four Acts. Han är en av de mest intressanta regissörerna från DRC idag.

Source:
http://cinemafrica.se/sv/filmer/spelfilmer/263-viva-riva