Djo Tunda Wa Munga (born 1972) is a Congolese

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

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. For his 2010 thriller movie ''

Viva Riva! ''Viva Riva!'' is a 2010 Congolese crime thriller film written and directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga. Starring Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Fabrice Kwizera, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo & Diplôme Amekindra, the film received 12 nomin ...

'' he won the award for ''Best Director'' at the

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in 2011. ''

'' also won at the 2011

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for Best African Movie The film was released in 18 African countries and portrayed a gritty view of life in

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...

. It was the first Congolese film produced since the

Mobutu Sese Seko Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997 (known as the Democratic Republic o ...

shut the industry down 25 years before. Riva, a charming seller of black-market gasoline, falls in love with the girlfriend of a Kinshasa crime boss. Angolese actor

Hoji Fortuna Hoji Ya Henda Braga Fortuna (born 4 September 1974) is an Angolan actor. Born in Luanda and named after war hero Hoji-ya-Henda, Fortuna emigrated to Portugal at the age of 20. He worked as a model and DJ in parallel to his study of law at the Ca ...

also won best supporting actor at the MTV Movie Awards for his portrayal of a hustler named Cesar.

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* Living people 1972 births People from Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo film directors Democratic Republic of the Congo film producers Best Director Africa Movie Academy Award winners 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people {{Africa-film-director-stub