# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-joao-ganga
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:01:28.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-joao-ganga"
name: "Maria João Ganga"
slug: "maria-joao-ganga"
description: "Maria João Ganga is an Angolan film director and screenwriter, best known for being the first woman to make a full-length feature film in Angola. Her film Hollow City, which she wrote and directed was released in 2004. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 2004 Paris Film Festival."
tagline: "Film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qjUA5g4awcINMw5FgU0041WxYaJ.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.88
  momentum:             12.85714285714285
  historical:           9.868394666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1549230/"
    handle:    "nm1549230"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jo%C3%A3o_Ganga"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "ماريا جواو جانجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريا چواو جانجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jo%C3%A3o_Ganga"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jo%C3%A3o_Ganga"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jo%C3%A3o_Ganga"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jo%C3%A3o_Ganga"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jo%C3%A3o_Ganga"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%96'%D7%95%D7%90%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%92%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%94"
    title: "מריה ז'ואאו גאנגה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jo%C3%A3o_Ganga"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jo%C3%A3o_Ganga"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27062979"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1277384"
    title: "Maria João Ganga"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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