Samantha Biffot

Samantha Biffot is a Franco-Gabonese director, writer and producer, graduate of ESRA Paris. In 2013, she wrote and directed L’Œil de la Cité, winning her first FESPACO award for Best Series. She went on to co-write and direct the African adaptation of the hit French series Parents Mode d’emploi for TV5 from 2016, running for several seasons. In 2021, she created, co-wrote and showran Mami Wata, the first Canal+ Afrique original series produced in Central Africa and in Gabon, nominated at La Rochelle Fiction Festival and awarded a second FESPACO prize for Best Series. With her company On Est Ensemble Productions, based in Abidjan, she has become a key player in Francophone Africa’s audiovisual industry, producing TV programs and series for Canal+ and TV5 across the region. Her first project as a feature film producer is a majority coproduction between Rwanda and Gabon with a minority French and Norwegian coproducers Ben’imana, directed by Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival and won the Caméra d’Or — the first African film in the festival’s history to receive this honour.