Nelson MAKENGO

Nelson Makengo is a filmmaker whose work oscillates between contemporary art and film. His short film Nuit debout (Up at night) has screened at over a hundred festivals worldwide and has been nominated by the BFI as one of the 50 best films of 2020. E’ville (2018) won the Sharjah Art Foundation Award at the Videobrasil Biennale in 2019. In recent years, Nelson Makengo has collaborated as a director with Aljazeera and Meta and is a Sundance Documentary Film Institute and Doha Film Institute Fellow. Rising up at night is his first feature documentary.