{"id":129225,"date":"2024-05-07T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/seydina-balde-talks-aim-to-create-african-action-hero-in-lex-africana\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:29:05","slug":"seydina-balde-talks-aim-to-create-african-action-hero-in-lex-africana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/seydina-balde-talks-aim-to-create-african-action-hero-in-lex-africana\/","title":{"rendered":"Seydina Bald\u00e9 Talks Aim To Create African Action Hero in \u2018Lex Africana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tFrench-Senegalese actor and producer Seydina Bald\u00e9<\/a> has worn many hats throughout his profession together with World Karate Champion and stuntman on movies resembling\u00a0Brian de Palma\u2019s\u00a0Femme Fatale<\/em>\u00a0and Bond film\u00a0Casino Royale<\/em>, however his dream since childhood has been to be an actor.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a dozen small elements, Bald\u00e9 engineered his first starring position with the self-produced, English-language motion thriller\u00a0Covert Operation<\/em>\u00a0(aka\u00a0The Borderland<\/em>). The North Korean-set film, a few bounty hunter on a mission to interrupt prisoners out of high-security navy compound, offered to Lionsgate for the U.S. and gained reward from motion film followers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA decade later, Bald\u00e9 is showing in essentially the most formidable manufacturing of his profession, six-part present\u00a0Lex Africana<\/a><\/em>, which is being billed as the primary martial arts-based motion thriller to return out of West Africa<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBald\u00e9 performs sensible architect and martial arts knowledgeable\u00a0Gabriel Aliou Thiam\u00a0who returns after a spell in Asia to his native Senegal and residential metropolis of Dakar, following the demise of his politician father in a automobile crash.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe involves suspect that the demise was not unintended. When native police dismiss his issues, he mounts his personal investigation in a transfer that may convey him up in opposition to Dakar\u2019s prison underworld, in addition to forces outdoors the nation. At the identical time, Thiam takes a job with a neighborhood NGO which exposes him to a brighter imaginative and prescient for Senegal. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe solid additionally options\u00a0Maud Baecker (Tomorrow is Ours<\/em>), Richard Sammel (The French Village<\/em>), Aicha Ba (Manjak<\/em>),\u00a0Matar Diouf (Wara<\/em>,\u00a0Atlantics<\/em>),\u00a0Am\u00e9lie Mbaye (Emprise<\/em>), Moussa Sow (Banel & Adama<\/em>) and Eriq Ebouaney (Here and There<\/em>) in addition to stuntman and long-time Bald\u00e9 collaborator Serge Crozon-Cazin.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe title\u00a0Lex Africana<\/em>\u00a0takes its cue from Pax Romana, the title given to the 200 years of peace and prosperity inside the Roman empire from\u00a027 BC to 180 AD.\u00a0Lex Africana<\/em>\u00a0hero Gabriel is on a mission to attain the identical stability in Africa.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSeydina Bald\u00e9, Alexandre Rideau (c) Franck Castel MPP<\/sub><\/p>\n

\n\tBald\u00e9 created and co-wrote the collection with Manuel di Zio. The collection is produced by Keewu Productions, the Dakar-based firm and Mediawan<\/a> Africa subsidiary led by Alexandre Rideau, in co-production with Bald\u00e9\u2019s Shimazu Productions.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI thought it was time for an African hero in the vein of Jason Bourne, or Ethan Hunt in\u00a0Mission Impossible<\/em>,\u201d says Bald\u00e9. \u201cHe is part an African Zorro, for the way he works in the shadows, part Jason Bourne.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was additionally eager to problem outdoors perceptions of Africa in addition to present its contrasting realities, by way of the character of\u00a0Thiam, who represents a rising Senegalese, upwardly cell center class, whereas his investigation brings him into contact with darker aspect of his nation. <\/p>\n

\n\tBald\u00e9, who was born and raised in France and in addition lived in Canada for a time, woke as much as the potential of capturing in Senegal when he was solid in Stefano Sollima\u2019s 2020 Sky Atlantic, Canal+ and Amazon Prime Video Italian crime drama\u00a0ZeroZeroZero<\/em>, for 2 episodes which shot within the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI could see the country was ready to welcome quality productions, when it came to its technicians,\u201d he stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe sought out Rideau as a companion after being impressed by Keewu\u2019s 2019 Dakar-set cop collection\u00a0Sakho & Mangane<\/em>, created by Jean Luc Herbulot (Saloum<\/em>), and starring Issaka Sawadogo and Yann Gael.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor me, that was the first ever premium production to come out of French-speaking Africa. I wanted a solid partner who was open to the action genre, which isn\u2019t easy to pull off and has its own special language,\u201d he explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRideau, who has been based mostly in Africa for greater than 20 years, created\u00a0Keewu Production in 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Dakar-based firm turned a part of Lagard\u00e8re Studios in 2015, which in flip was acquired by pan-European movie and TV content material group Mediawan in 2020. The firm is now a cornerstone of regional pole Mediawan Africa<\/a>, with Rideau additionally taking over the position of Head of Production inside that group.<\/p>\n

\n\tKeewu has led the way in which in West Africa when it comes to creating native drama collection with different credit together with\u00a0C\u2019est La Vie and<\/em>\u00a0Black Santiago Club<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRideau says figuring out above and beneath the road skills, after which coaching and accompanying them within the early levels of their careers, is on the coronary heart of Keewu\u2019s operations with the purpose of supporting and rising the audiovisual ecosystem in Senegal and wider West Africa.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve had productions in recent years, where 20% of the production costs are linked to training. If more and more series are being shot in Dakar today, it\u2019s because we\u2019ve helped build three, four crews through this work,\u201d he explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith every production we try to push the quality up a little bit more and also move into new genres. One of the reasons we were happy with\u00a0Sakho & Mangane\u00a0<\/em>is that we managed to make an American-style police series out of Africa. What we liked about Seydina\u2019s project was the fact it took the codes of action cinema and transferred them to Africa and Dakar, in a very authentic way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLex Africana launched April 22 on Canal+ Original and Canal+ Afrique and will probably be made obtainable in six months time on Chaine Action, the French community run by Mediawan Thematics which is a part of the Canal+ bouquet.<\/p>\n

\n\tMediawan\u2019s worldwide gross sales arm, which put down a MG, is now engaged on securing distribution outdoors the French-speaking world, with rights obtainable for the U.S., Canada, Australia and UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth Bald\u00e9 and Rideau say the dimensions of\u00a0Lex Africana<\/em>\u00a0has laid the bottom for equally formidable collection set in different elements of the African continent.<\/p>\n

\n\tBald\u00e9 reveals they’re within the late levels of growth on a brand new English-language present set and shot throughout South Africa, the place he notes the cinema trade already has a track-record within the motion style.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ll be shooting in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. It will be a sort of treasure hunt across South Africa with a story at its heart that has global resonance and a mixed local and international cast,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair even have plans for future seasons of\u00a0Lex Africana<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe first season is the birth of a hero,\u201d says Bald\u00e9. \u201cThe first episodes take their time to establish Gabriel\u2019s character, the world he inhabits and the other characters, but by the end of the six episodes, he very much exists and we\u2019d like him to continue his mission, not just in Senegal but in other parts of Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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