Leila N'deye Thiam

Leila Thiam is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and director of photography. She is best known for her film Chambre n°1 / Room n°1 (2017, Director).

Born in 1987 in Bangui, Central African Republic, Leila Ndéye Thiam has been working for several years with the Central African National Television, where she has directed various reports. In 2017, she was selected to participate in the first Varan workshop for directing in Bangui, organized by Ateliers Varan and the Alliance Française de Bangui. During this workshop, she created Chambre n°1, her first creative documentary, which was one of ten short documentary films selected for numerous international festivals, including Visions du Réel, FIDADOC Agadir, and the Saint-Louis Documentary Film Festival. In 2020, she began developing her first feature-length documentary, Koli-Wali.