Dieudo Hamadi (born 1984) is a documentary filmmaker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[1][2][3] Born in Kisangani, he was a teenager when the Six-Day War broke out in the region.
[2] His first short documentary film, Ladies in Waiting (Dames en attente), won the Pierre et Yolande Perrault Grant for an emerging filmmaker at the Cinéma du Réel film festival in 2010.
[6] In 2014 he won the festival's Potemkine and Société civile des auteurs multimédia awards for Examen d'État [fr] (National Diploma),[7] and in 2017 he won the festival's Grand Prize for Mama Colonel.
[12] It had its public premiere in September 2020 as part of the Planet Africa program at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival,[13] where it received an honorable mention from the jury for the Amplify Voices Award.