Synopsis
In the north-east of the Belgian Congo, enigmatic murders were carried out “in the style of the leopard”, arousing fear and striking the imagination. At the head of the conspiracy, a ritualistic leader. Accused of brutal murder by the colonial justice system, he was found guilty and hanged in 1934.
Director's Biography
Jean-Michel KIBUSHI NDJATE WOOTO: Jean-Michel Kibushi Ndjate Wooto (1959) is considered the first director of animated films in Central Africa. He studied theater and cinema at the National Institute of Arts in Kinshasa and discovered animation at the Atelier Graphoui (Brussels). In 1988, he set up the first mobile training and production studio for animated films: Studio Malembe Maa. In 1990, he directed the first animated film in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Le crapaud chez ses beaux-parents. He then continued to make several films between documentary and animation, two of which won a prize at the FESPACO.
Today, as a researcher in Arts and Sciences of Art, he works on the analysis and decomposition of a colonial mystification that still exists, "The Anioto or Leopard Men", and contributes to the development of animation cinema by training young artists.
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