Osvalde Lewat

Quick Facts

Full Name	Osvalde Lewat
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Sep 17, 1976(1976-09-17)
Age	48
Birthplace	Garoua
Country	Cameroon
Birth City	North Region
Horoscope	Virgo

Osvalde Lewat Biography

Osvalde Lewat is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on September 17, 1976 in Garoua, North Region, Cameroon. Osvalde Lewat was born Garoua, Cameroon in 1977. She was raised within the town of Yaounde and was in love with films. She was a keen student in photography. She began taking Polaroid pictures of relatives. Lewat was a student in Paris as a student at Sciences Po. After graduation from this university Lewat came back in Cameroon around 2000 and began to join the newspaper that was published daily, the Cameroon Tribune. She began making documentary films after a number of years of working as an editor.

Lewat’s 2008 documentary Black Business (Une Affaire de negres) is about the political developments that took place during 2000, in Cameroon. A specific section that is part of Doula police, known as the Operational Command, are tasked with dealing with the growing issue of crime in Douala. The unit is responsible for the disappearances of more than a thousands of men in one year. In the documentary, Lewat interviews family members of the victims, social activists who express their displeasure over the brutality, as well as very few survivors from the massive shootings. Lewant reveals to viewers the scenes of crime as well as the villages in which the victims were taken and the locations where the bodies of the victims were found.. The film was shown at Cannes as well as at the Vues d’Afrique Festival in Montreal. This documentary received nominations for Muhr AsiaAfrica Award in 2008.

Lewat’s documentary investigates the purchasing of large acreages of farm land in Mali, by Saudi Arabian and Chinese business who build large agribusiness farms. The film tackles themes of food sovereignty, imperialism, modern poverty, and land ownership. Co-directed with Hugo Berkeley, the documentary won a Peabody Award in 2012.”

The year 2002 was the time Lewat made the feature film The Forgotten Man (Au- dela de la punishment) The film tells the tale of a prisoner called Leppe that was sentenced for four years of jail for an insignificant offense. He remains in jail for 33 years later, and his family members having given up on the possibility that he would ever be released. Lewat was given the prize for human rights in the Vues d’Afrique festival in Montreal for his film.

Osvalde Lewat Net Worth

Osvalde Lewat is one of the richest Film Director from Cameroon. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Osvalde Lewat 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lewat’s documentary A Love during the War (Un Amour Pendant La Guerre) was set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the First Congo War in 1996. The documentary exposes the massive rape of women throughout the conflict and the government’s silence on this subject. The documentary tries to solve this question “What are the consequences when rape is used as a weapon of war?” The film focuses on one victim’s experience after the couple separated during the conflict. “Aziza reunites with her husband in Kinshasa, but the memory of the horrors suffered by other women during the war still haunts her. Despite her husband’s protests, she returns to Eastern Congo to find that the legacy of violence continues to infect the lives of women young and old. However, not everyone remains a victim as women have started denouncing the abuses they suffered.” The film was awarded the Human Rights Prize at the Vues d’Afrique Festival in Montreal.

Lewat was a film student in Canada in Canada, where she began her career in documentary filmmaking. The first film she made, The Calumet of Hope (Upsa Yimoowin), was made at Toronto at the end of 2000. It highlights the lack of representation of Native Americans in America and was awarded the Human Rights Award in the Montreal Film Festival in 2003.

Since 2012, Levat’s main focus has been on photography. Her work explores the idea of “otherness and ways of seeing”. She has exhibited her work in Paris, the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Osvalde Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Cameroon. Osvalde Lewat celebrates birthday on September 17 of every year.