Yamina Benguigui
Yamina Benguigui ( born April 9, 1955 in Lille, Nord ), born Yamina Zora Belaidi, is a French film director, screenwriter and film producer who mainly due to the 2010 with the Civis - was known in Europe Media Prize for Integration excellent television series Aïcha. Since 16 May 2012, the non-party, however, to the Political Left scoring Benguigui Minister Delegate for French outside France and Francophonie in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean -Marc Ayrault.
Life
Origin, director and writer
A native of an Algerian immigrant family Yasmina Benguigui completed post-school studies at the University of Lyon II and then worked together as assistant director with director Jean -Daniel Pollet.
Together with the also dating an Algerian immigrant family director Rachid Bouchareb she founded in the early 1990s, the film production company Raya Films and produced with this 1990-1991 for the television channel France 3, the series Rencontres, in with the cultural and social situation of immigrants France addressed. Then she produced for the TV station France 2 numerous documentaries such as Femmes d' Islam (1994) and La Maison de Kate, un lieu d' espoir (1995).
After the documentary Mémoires d' immigrés, l' héritage maghrébin (1997) on the situation of immigrants from the Maghreb and the short film Pimprenelle from the TV series Pas d' histoires! (2001) she turned the 2004 film Inshallah - last Sunday, in which, among other well-known actor Mohamed Fellag played a supporting role. More incurred under their short films were directed by Le plafond de verre (2004), Les défricheurs (2006 ) and 9 /3, mémoire d'un territoire (2008). For some of her films she wrote beyond the screenplay.
Large notoriety she gained by the produced for France 2 television series Aïcha that emerged in the years 2009 to 2012 and for 2010 they together with Dominique Lancelot with the Civis - was awarded Europe's Media Prize for Integration in the field of entertainment.
Vice - Mayor of Paris and Minister with responsibility
The non-party, but to the Divers gauche counting Benguigui supported the ultimately unsuccessful candidacy of Lionel Jospin in the presidential election of 2002.
2008 Yamina Benguigui was elected Vice - Mayor of Paris and has been responsible as a representative of Mayor Bertrand Delanoë for human rights and the fight against discrimination.
After the election of François Hollande as President and the appointment of Jean -Marc Ayrault as Prime Minister, she was of this on May 16, 2012 Assistant Secretary of State for French outside France and Francophonie appointed to his cabinet and as such Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius assumed.