Add/Update Information: Med Hondo - Writer

Mauritanian-Senegalese writer and director born in 1936 to a Mauritanian mother and a Senegalese father in Mauritania. He was educated in Rabat then travelled to France to pursue his career. He appeared in several plays and founded a theater troupe with actors from the Antillean Islands in 1966. He also appeared in three films before turning to film directing. He directed short films before directing his first feature film Oh, Sun (1969), which depicts the lives of Africans in France. His other works include West Indies (1979), Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar (2004), and Les Bicots-Nègres vos voisins (1974). He died on March 2, 2019 in Paris, France.