Thierry Dushimirimana

Thierry Dushimirimana is a Rwandan photographer and filmmaker.

Life

In A Love Letter to My Country (2006), a Tutsi survivor falls in love with a Hutu man from a family involved in the genocide against the Tutsi.^[1] The film screened at serval international film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in 2011.^[2]

He has collaborated with Eric Kabera, working with him as cinematographer on Juan Reina's 2010 documentary Iseta – behind the roadblock, which followed a British journalist Nick Hughes returning to find out more about the murder he had photographed in Gikondo in 1994.^[3]

Filmography

Une Lettre d'amour à mon pays [A Love Letter to My Country], 2006. 36 min. Director.
Iseta: Behind the Roadblock, 2010, dir. Juan Reina. Cinematographer.
6954 Kilometres to Home / 6954 kilometriä kotiin, 2013, dir. Juan Reina. Production Manager.

References

^ Jolyon P. Mitchell (2012). Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence: The Role of Religion and Media. Routledge. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-415-55746-7.
^ Rwanda through Eric Kabera’s lens, The East African, May 8 2015.
^ Matthew Edwards, ed. (2018). The Rwandan Genocide on Film: Critical Essays and Interviews. McFarland. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4766-7072-0.

External links

Thierry Dushimirimana at IMDb

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[Mitchell2012-1] Jolyon P. Mitchell (2012). Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence: The Role of Religion and Media. Routledge. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-415-55746-7.

[2] Rwanda through Eric Kabera’s lens, The East African, May 8 2015.

[Edwards2018-3] Matthew Edwards, ed. (2018). The Rwandan Genocide on Film: Critical Essays and Interviews. McFarland. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4766-7072-0.

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