Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy

A graduate of Cheikh Anta Diop University and the Media Center in Dakar, Cheikh is a Senegalese director, cinematographer, and independent video-journalist who has fifteen years of experience. His first film was a short documentary titled Silence, On Arrive (2005) deals with the fate of Mauritanian refugees in the Senegal River valley. Released in 2008, the second is about the manatees of the Nawel backwater, in Matam. Subsequently, he directed Mbeubeuss, the Gold Rush in 2011 which looks at people who live off the waste economy at the Mbeubeuss landfill. In 2020, he made the feature documentary Les Murs Du Savoir shot over 4 years with four portraits of students from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.