# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gadalla-gubara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:41:59.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gadalla-gubara"
name: "Gadalla Gubara"
slug: "gadalla-gubara"
description: "Gadalla Gubara was a Sudanese cameraman, film producer, director and photographer. Over five decades, he produced more than 50 documentaries and three feature films. He was a pioneer of African cinema, and a co-founder of both the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers FEPACI and the FESPACO Film festival, held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. His daughter, Sara Gubara, who is a graduate of Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema, Egypt, assisted him with his later film projects, after he had lost his eyesight."
tagline: "Sudanese filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gadalla_Gubara.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920"
deathDate: "2008-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.95
  momentum:             10.83333333333333
  historical:           6.80702
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3944108/"
    handle:    "nm3944108"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadalla_Gubara"
    title: "Gadalla Gubara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9"
    title: "جاد الله جبارة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadalla_Gubara"
    title: "Gadalla Gubara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadalla_Gubara"
    title: "Gadalla Gubara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadalla_Gubara"
    title: "Gadalla Gubara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadalla_Gubara"
    title: "Gadalla Gubara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadalla_Gubara"
    title: "Gadalla Gubara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5516286"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1348305"
    title: "Gadalla Gubara"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump