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.
[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.