and writer
Mia Couto at the Back2Black festival in Rio de Janeiro, 2010. (about 1920). (2011). (2009). '' film festivals in Maputo. After the independence of Mozambique on June 25, 1975, the new
marxist regime of the
FRELIMO party invested in cinematic film production to show its own vision. It invited established European film directors like French
Jean Godard (1930–2022) and
Jean Rouch (1917–2022) to work on film and video projects in Mozambique in the years 1977-1998: Godard to research video for television and Rouch for a
Super 8 film project teaching at the Communications Department of
Eduardo Mondlane University, while the Portuguese-Brazilian film director
Ruy Guerra (born in Maputo, 1931) worked at the
Maputo (INC) founded by FRELIMO in 1976. For instance Brazilian-Mozambican director
Licínio Azevedo worked with Godard and Guerra in Maputo, or at least felt the influence of Godard and Rouch. In 2003 the Portuguese film maker directed the documentary
Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema detailing the founding of the National Institute of Cinema. ==Mozambican film directors==