Dieudo Hamadi

Dieudo Hamadi is a documentary filmmaker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Born in Kisangani, he was a teenager when the Six-Day War broke out in the region. His first short documentary film, Ladies in Waiting, won the Pierre et Yolande Perrault Grant for an emerging filmmaker at the Cinéma du Réel film festival in 2010. The film was part of Congo in Four Acts, an anthology of four short films by emerging Congolese filmmakers.