Ne Kunda Nlaba (Ne Kunda Nlaba)

Né à Kinshasa en R.D.Congo, Ne Kunda Nlaba est un Producteur, Réalisateur, Scénariste, Acteur et Politologue Africain.

Détenteur d’un Master of Arts en Cinéma et Télévision à Birkbeck University of London, d’un Certificat d’étude universitaire en Film Production and Film Studies à University of West London, d’un diplôme en L3 City and Guild Media Industries Production au Lambeth College à Londres et gradué en sciences politiques et administratives à l’Université Chrétienne Cardinal Malula à Kinshasa en R.D.Congo; Ne Kunda Nlaba est propriétaire et Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) de la société de production cinématographique Labson Bizizi-Cine Kongo Ltd et de la société de distribution des films Afrika Bizizi Distribution Ltd basées à Londres et Kinshasa, fondateur et Professeur de cinéma de Kongo Bizizi Academy “l’institut Panafricain du cinéma”, concepteur de Bizizi Box et est également membre de la Guild des Producteurs de la Grande Bretagne, Producer Guild of Great Britain (PGGB).  

Artiste engagé, en passant par le théâtre, le rap, la danse contemporaine, la photographie, la radio et la Télévision; il réunit toute cette expérience et long parcours pour exprimer sa vision du monde et aussi pour se connecter non seulement avec le public Africain mais aussi avec le plus grand public du monde à travers ses oeuvres cinématographiques. Il compte faire du film un remède qui pourra faire vivre l’homme pendant longtemps.

Il fait sa première apparition cinématographique entant qu’acteur principal dans le court-métrage « Un Virus A l’Ecole » de Alain Ndontoni en 1999.
Il a joué dans plusieurs pièces de théâtre et conte tels que « Shella » 1998, « Pasteur Contre Evangéliste » 1999 avec la compagnie Heaven Boyz, « Cri de Détresse et d’Espoir » 2005, « Nsengane » (Conte) 2007 avec Virunga Théâtre et a aussi participé à la création des spectacles de danse contemporaine tels que « Na Nini ? » et « Bataille Sans Fin » avec la compagnie Diba Dance.

 

Il fonde sa compagnie de théâtre, Virunga Théâtre et la maison de culture Labson Cultur’arts à Kinshasa en 2004, crée le Festival Solo ou Mosi, un festival des arts de la scène en solo ou one man show qui a connu sa première édition en 2005 et sa deuxième édition en 2007 à Kinshasa. Il travaille en 2006 avec Canal 5 télévision puis avec le Centre Culturel Mbongi’Eto du griot Ne Nkamu et le projet Kiamvu-le Pont entant que Chargé de Communication et reporter.



Il se décide consacrer sa carrière dans le cinéma en 2007, crée sa société de production Labson Bizizi-Cine Kongo et produit son premier court métrage d’horreur « The Next » en 2009 à Londres.

 



FILMOGRAPHIE/BIZIZIGRAPHIE



1. "The Next" (2009) un court métrage et film d'horaire diffusé sur internet. Rôle: Réalisateur, Producteur, Scénariste, Monteur et Acteurhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbMtggIJ9BM



2. "The Steel Pan" (2010) un film documentaire de 30 minutes sur l'histoire de l'invention, le développement de l'instrument Steel Pan ou tambour d'acier.

Le film était projecté en première mondiale au Festival du Film Black de Montréal le 27 et 29 Septembre 2011 et sera projecté à la bibliothèque Tate South Lambeth Library à Londres le 17 Juillet 2013 suivi de la discussion avec le réalisateur et a Barefacefilms club à Londres au mois d'Aout 2014 et au Festival Sounds Like London Film Festival en 2015.



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2006828/

Rôle : Réalisateur, Producteur & Monteur.



3. "Living Without Living" (2011) un film documentaire de 16 minutes produit dans le cadre de la campagne "Respect and Dignity for Asylum seekers" Respect and dignité pour les demandeurs d'asile projecté en première mondiale a Amnesty International Human Right/Action Centre à Londres le 22 Novembre 2011, 30 Novembre 2011 au Refugee Council puis en première international au Festival du Film d'Oosternieland en Hollande le 04 Novembre 2012, au cine club de Barefacefilms a Londres au début du mois de Juillet 2013 et sera projecté à la bibliothèque Tate South Lambeth Library à Londres en 17 Juillet 2013.Rôle : Réalisateur, Producteur & Monteur.



4. "Chérie Bondowe" (2012) son premier long-métrage de fiction sur le divorce et domestique violence dans les communautés des immigrés africains de l'Europe produit à Londres entre 2011 et 2012.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LUtPssSgiA



Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ch%C3%A9rie-Bondowe-Film/170790269602641?ref=hl

Rôle: Réalisateur, Producteur, scénariste, monteur et acteur.







5. « Abeti Masikini : Le Combat d’une Femme » (2015) film documentaire.

Rôle : Co-producteur et Co-Réalisateur.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AbetiMasikiniFilm/

Website: www.abetimasikinifilm.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0B4g9shIXM



6. "Kimpa Vita : La Mère de la Révolution Africaine" (2016), un film documentaire sur la vie de Kimpa Vita une grande révolutionnaire brûlée vive a son bébé le 02 Juillet 1706 a Mbanza Kongo au Royaume Kongo pour la lutte contre l'esclavage. .

Site : www.kimpavitafilm.com

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/KimpaVitaFilm/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KimpaVitaFilm

Rôle : Producteur, Réalisateur & Monteur.



7.  « Royaume Kongo: A la recherche du Royaume détruit » (2020) long-métrage documentaire.

Rôle: Producteur, Réalisateur et Scénariste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVrlTCYork&t=3s

Site : https://www.labsonbizizi-cinekongo.org/#royaume-kongo-film

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/royaumekongofilm/



8. « Afro Beat » (2021) Long métrage de fiction.

Rôle : Producteur et Réalisateur.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/afrobeatfilm/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/afrobeatfilm1



9. « Kimpa Vita » long-métrage de fiction en developpement. Rôle: Producteur, Réalisateur et Scénariste

mise à jour : le 23 Juin 2020

Born in Kinshasa in D.R.Congo, Ne Kunda Nlaba is an award-winning African Film Producer, Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Actor and Political Scientist based in London. He is the owner and C.E.O of Labson Bizizi-Cine Kongo Ltd and Afrika Bizizi Distribution Ltd, founder and Film Professor at Kongo Bizizi Academy “the Pan African Film Institute”, creator of Bizizi Box and also member of Producers Guild of Great Britain (PGGB).



A confident and creative filmmaker with experience in writing, producing and directing narrative fiction and documentary films of diverse genres. Recently produced and directed short and feature films distributed on streaming platforms such as Amazon and Kweli TV, on Television, in cinema and at national and international film festivals including “The Next” (2009), “The Steel Pan” (2010), “Living Without Living” (2011), "Cherie Bondowe" (2012), “Abeti Masikini: Le Combat d’Une Femme” (2015) and “Kimpa Vita: The Mother of African Revolution” (2016), “Kingdom of Kongo: In Search of the Destroyed Kingdom” (2020) and is actually producing a dance feature film "Afro Beat" and the drama feature film “Kimpa Vita”.



Education



Apart from his secondary school diploma in Biology and Chemistry from Kinshasa, Ne Kunda Nlaba had his degree in political science from Université Chrétienne Cardinal Malula in Kinshasa in 2005, a L3 city & guild diploma in Advanced media

industries production from Lambeth College in London in 2010, a

Certificate of Higher Education in BA(Hons) Film: Video production with film studies from University of West London in 2013 and a Master of Arts in Film, Television & Screen Media from Birkbeck University of London in 2018.

 

Early life



Ne Kunda Nlaba started his career in art since he was a very little child by performing in plays and doing poetry at primary school and secondary school in Kinshasa in D.R.Congo where he won some best actor trophies from school drama competitions and then started directing and giving drama training at age 16 to children from Baraka primary school in Kinshasa where he also won prizes for Best director and best performance.

He made his first film appearance as main actor in Kinshasa in a short film “Un Virus A L’Ecole” directed by Alain Ndontoni in 1998.
 He performed in several plays and storytelling including "Shella" 1998 "Pasteur Contre Evangéliste" 1999 with Heaven Boyz company, "Cri de Détresse et d’Espoir ", 2005 "Nsengane" (Tale) 2007 with Virunga Theatre and also participated in the creation of contemporary dance shows such as "Na Nini? “and "Bataille Sans Fin" with Diba Dance company of choreographer Jean-Marie Musungayi.



He founded his theater company, Virunga Theatre and a Cultural Centre called Labson Cultur'arts in Kinshasa in 2004, and then created Festival Solo or Mosi, a one man show festival which had its first edition in 2005 and the second edition in 2007 in Kinshasa.

In 2006, Ne Kunda Nlaba started working with Canal 5 television channel as a marketing/sale agent and presenter, and then joined Mbongi'Eto Cultural Centre with the griot Ne Nkamu Luyindula and also the project Kiamvu-Le Pont as a Communication Officer while working still as an actor.



He decided to focus his career in film in 2007, founded his film production company Labson Bizizi-Cine Kongo and began his film career in Kinshasa and produced his first short horror film "The Next" in 2009 in London, a year after he moved to United Kingdom and his first documentary “The Steel Pan: The Spiritual musical Instrument of the 20th Century” in 2010 which was screened at Montreal Black Film Festival in Montreal in Canada in 2011, and produced his first drama feature film “Cherie Bondowe” in 2012.

Throughout his career path from theatre, rap, contemporary dance, photography to radio and television; Ne Kunda Nlaba associates all this experience gained from his long journey to express his vision of the world and also connect not only with the African public, but also with the world public through his films.
He hopes to make film a remedy that will make human live for several centuries.



FILMOGRAPHY/BIZIZIGRAPHY



2021: “KIMPA VITA” a biopic drama feature film about Kimpa Vita (actually in development).


Genre: Drama, Credit: Producer, Director and Screenwriter.



2021: “AFRO BEAT ” a dance feature film about based on Afrobeat dance competition.

Genre: Drama, Credit: Producer, Director and Screenwriter.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/afrobeatfilm/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/afrobeatfilm1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/afrobeatfilm/



2020: “THE KINGDOM OF KONGO: IN SEARCH OF THE DESTROYED KINGDOM” a documentary feature film about the Kingdom of Kongo.


Genre: Documentary, Credit: Producer, Director and Screenwriter.

Site : https://www.labsonbizizi-cinekongo.org/#royaume-kongo-film

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/royaumekongofilm/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=visP9Zu9uwA



2016: “KIMPA VITA: THE MOTHER OF AFRICAN REVOLUTION” a documentary a feature film about Kimpa Vita a 22 young women burnt a life for the revolution in 1706 against slavery in the Kongo Kingdom. The film is currently in preproduction and production process.

Genre: Documentary, Credit: Writer, Producer and Director.

Site : www.kimpavitafilm.com

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/KimpaVitaFilm/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KimpaVitaFilm



2015: “ABETI MASIKINI: LE COMBAT D’UNE FEMME” a documentary feature film about the life of the Congolese Diva, the singer Abeti Masikini, the queen of soukous. The film was screened in Avant-premiere in Paris and at Festival du Film Africain de Belgique (FIFAB) in September 2015.

Genre: Documentary, Credit: Co-producer and Co-director. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AbetiMasikiniFilm/

Website: www.abetimasikinifilm.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0B4g9shIXM



 2012: “CHERIE BONDOWE” a melodrama feature film about divorce, domestic violence and suicide in a migrant community.

Genre: Drama, Credit: Writer, Producer and Director.



2011: “LIVING WITHOUT LIVING” a short documentary film about the life destitute asylum seekers in the UK produced as part of Respect and Dignity for Asylum Seekers Campaign sponsored by British Refugee Council.

The film was screened as world and U.K premiere at Amnesty International/ Human Right Action centre in London and was screened for the second time at the British Refugee Council and was screened as international premiere at Film Festival 2012 in Netherlands on 04 November 2012;  and at Bareface film club and at Tate South Lambeth Library in London in July 2013.

Genre: Documentary, Credit: Writer, Producer and Director.



2010: “THE STEEL PAN” a documentary about the creation, development and construction of the Caribbean musical instrument invented in Trinidad and Tobago.

Screened at the 7th Montreal Black Film Festival in September and October 2011, at Tate South Lambeth Library in London in July 2013 and at Sounds Like London Film Festival in 2015 in London.

Genre: Documentary, Credit: Writer, Producer and Director.



2009: “THE NEXT” (2009) short horror thriller about a gentleman who kills his former girl friends and their close relationships for deception.

Genre: Horror, Credit: Writer, Producer and Director.

Nascido em Kinshasa (Republica democrática do Congo), Ne Kunda Nlaba é produtor, realizador, roteirista, ator e politólogo africano. Detentor de um mestrado em artes do cinema e televisão pela Birkbeck University de Londres, e dum certificado Universitário em Produção e estudo cinematográficos pela universidade de West London, dum diploma L3 na Produção da Industria de Mídia pelo Lambert College de Londres, e duma graduação em ciências políticas e administrativa pela Universidade Crista Cardeal Malula de Kinshasa (RD Congo). Ne Kunda Nlaba é proprietário e gestor principal da Empresa de produção cinematografica denominado Labson Bizizi-Cine Kongo limitada e da Empresa de distribuiçao de filmes Afrika Bizizi Distribution Ltd baseado em Londres e em Kinshasa, Fundador e Professor de cinema da Kongo Bizizi Academia “Instituto Panafricana da cinema”, conceitor de Bizizi Box e igualmente membro da Guilda dês Produtores do Reino Unido e da Producer Guild (PGGB).   Artista engageado, tendo passado pelo teatro, o rap, a dança contemporânea, a fotografia, a radio e a Televisão; reúne toda essa experiencia e longo percurso para exprimir a sua visão do mundo e também para se conectar não somente com o público africano mais também com o maior público do mundo através de suas obras cinematográficas. Conta fazer do filme um remédio que poderá fazer viver o homen mais tempo possível. Fez a sua primeira aparição cinematográfica como ator principal na curta metragem «Um Virus na Escola» de Alain Ndotoni em 1999.
  Atuou em muitas peças teatrais e contos tais como «Shella» 1998, «Pasteur ContreEvangéliste» 1999 em compania de Heaven Boyz, «Cri de Détresse et d’Espoir» em 2005, « Nsengane» (Conto) em 2007 com Virunga Teatro e também participou na criação de espectaculos de danças contemporâneas tais como « Na Nini ?» e « Bataille Sans Fin » em companhia de Diba Dance. Fundou a sua companhia de Teatro, Virunga Teatro e a Casa de cultura Labson Cultur’arts em Kinshasa em 2004, criou o Festival Solo ou Mosi, um festival de artes cênicos em solo ou one man show o qual conheceu a sua primeira edição em 2005 e segunda em 2007 na cidade de Kinshasa. Trabalha em 2006 com a Televisão Canal 5 depois com o Centro Cultural Mbongi’Eto do Griot Ne Nkamu e o projecto Kiamvu – a ponte sendo encarregado de comunicação e repórter. Decidiu consagrar a sua carreira no cinema em 2007, cria a sua Empresa de produção Labson Bizizi-Cine Kongo e produz a sua primeira curta metragem de horror «The Next »  em 2009 na cidade de Londres. Filmografia Ne Kunda Nlaba já realizou e produziu filmes documentários e ficções curta e longa-metragens entre os quias podemos mencionar: 1. «The Next» (2009), curta metragem. Papel: Produtor, Realizador, roteirista, Ator & editor.
 2. «The Steel Pan» (2010) documentário. Papel: Produtor, Realizador, roteirista, Ator & editor.
 3. « Living Without Living » (2011) documentário de 16 min. Papel: Produtor, Realizador, roteirista, Ator & editor 4. «Chérie Bondowe» (2012), sua primeira longa-metragem de ficção. Papel: Produtor, Realizador, roteirista, Ator & editor 5. «Abeti Masikini : Le Combat d’une Femme » (2015) filme documentário. Papel: Coprodutor e Corealizador.
 6. «Kimpa Vita: A mãe da revolução africana» (2016) filme documentário. Papel: Produtor, Realizador, roteirista & editor 7. «Reino do Kongo: Em Busca Do Reino Destruído» (2020) documentário. Papel: Produtor, Realizador, roteirista & editor 8. «Afro Beat» longa-metragem de ficção em desenvolvimento. Papel: Produtor, Realizador e roteirista 9. «Kimpa Vita» longa-metragem de ficção em desenvolvimento.