Nelson Makengo is a filmmaker whose work oscillates between contemporary art and cinema. His film, Nuit Debout (Best Short Doc IDFA 2019), has screened at over 100 festivals worldwide and was named by the BFI as one of the 350 Best Films of 2020. E’ville (2018) won the Sharjah Art Foundation Award at the 2019 Videobrasil Biennial. In recent years, Nelson Makengo has collaborated as a director with Al Jazeera and Meta, served as a jury member at several festivals, and is an alumnus of the Sundance Documentary Film Institute and the Doha Film Institute. Tongo Saa (Rising up at Night) is his first feature-length documentary.
