Maria João Ganga
Her film Hollow City (Na Cidade Vazia), which she wrote and directed was released in 2004.[2] Ganga attended the Ecole Superieure Libre d'Etudes Cinématographiques, (ESEC) film school in Paris.[3] Ganga wrote the screenplay for Hollow City, based on a novel by Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (Pepetela).[2] The story centers around an eleven year old boy, N'dala (Roldan Pinto João), who witnesses the massacre of his family by soldiers in his native village of Bie.N'dala and other orphaned children are rescued and taken to Luanda, Angola's capital by a missionary nun.