Djamel-Eddine Chanderli

Biography

Djamel-Eddine Chanderli is an Algerian director, born in 1920 in Annaba. In 1956, in the middle of the Algerian war of independence, he joined the maquis and was considered the first Algerian to produce images from inside the country in struggle. In 1957, Djamel-Eddine was part of the team of the cinema service which was created by the GPRA (Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic).

The first independent Algerian images of a documentary nature were therefore born in the maquis of the National Liberation Army (ALN) in 1957. Participating in a real war of images intended to counter colonial propaganda, they are known under the title “Ambush between EI -Arrouch and Azzaba” showing an a...