BIO

Marc Serena (1983) made his debut with the feature-length documentary Tchindas (2015), filmed in Cape Verde. The film won an award at the Outfest Festival in Los Angeles, was a finalist for the AMAA Awards of the African Movie Academy (Nigeria), and was broadcast by PBS (United States). More recently, he directed The Writer from a Country Without Bookshops (2019), a portrait of Equatorial Guinea and the impact of Spanish colonialism in Africa. It won the DIG Award for Best European Investigative Journalism and was broadcast by RTP (Portugal).

In 2023, Afrikaldia screened his series of environmental short films shot in Ghana, premiered at the Black Star Film Festival in Accra (Ghana) and the Lagos International Animation Film Festival (Nigeria). He is also the author of the book This Is Not African! (2014), about the situation of the LGBTQ+ community on the continent.

He directed the web documentary Double Epidemic for the newspapers El País and Ara, featuring global health experts from seven African countries. His career was recognised in 2020 at the Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival (Egypt).

At AFRIKALDIA, he is premiering his first fiction film, the medium-length feature The Adventures of Angosat, shot in a single take through the streets of Luanda (Angola). The film will also be screened this October at the world music fair WOMEX, held this year in Finland.