Zeka Leplaine | |
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Born | 1960 |
Nationality | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Occupation | Actor Director |
Notable work | Macadam Tribu |
Zeka Laplaine (born 1960), sometimes credited as José Laplaine,[1] is a director and actor from Ilebo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2][3] The child of a Portuguese father and Congolese mother,[4] he moved to Europe when he was 18.[5] His 1996 short film Le Clandestin was featured at the 2010 Amakula International Film Festival in Uganda.[6] He portrayed a cowboy alongside Danny Glover in Death in Timbuktu, a film within a film in the Council of Europe Film Award-winning film, Bamako.[7][8] Laplaine is a member of France's "Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs".[9]
Laplaine's first short film was Le Clandestin,[4] which he wrote, directed and acted in (playing a policeman in charge of a container dock in Lisbon).[4] A French production set in Portugal,[10] Le Clandestin examines African emigration and questions the dream of Europe as a "Northern Paradise" for immigrants.[4][11]
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