Aminata Drynie Bockarie is a Fine Art Artist and Cinematographer living in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She is the Founder of Konafor Creative Media; a multimedia and creative art company with the aim of helping young people to reach their goal with the use of Creative Art and filmmaking skills.
Her journey started as an artist at a very early age by drawing stick figures. With support from her family members, she was able to move into the film industry and in 2010 enrolled at the Ballanta Academy of music, where she studied Performing Arts and Media. She started teaching dancing in the kids class while continuing with her course of study.
Aminata is a multitalented young woman with a kin interest in Creative Arts, women’s development and empowerment and media.
As Sierra Leone modernizes, the cultural and traditional way of life depreciates and embraces more westernize ideas. This transformation has resulted to the extinction of very important traditional practices and people’s loss of identity hence a scale down of our touristic industry. Long ago, Arts and Craft was part of our school curriculum, kids were taught how to make local produce such as soap, handkerchiefs, drawing, gara tie dying etc. There were even school drama and cultural talent shows, but all these are now of the past. Kids know nothing about them other than the foreign ways they are taught in school.
To celebrate the International Women’s Day, Aminata Drynie is working with a team of vigilant women to unveil her art with the start of a Mini Arts Exhibition to kick start the first phase of their work. The aims of this exhibition are to raise-awareness, and to open a forum for the promotion and preservation of original Sierra Leonean art forms and practices.
As an artist without any formal fine arts training, Aminata engages herself in creating Stunning Artwork while working as a full time filmmaker.
Over the years, Aminata have been part of the wetlfilm organization as a female cinematography editor, director and writer and did a couple of award-winning short films such as “Diana’s Diary”, “Up in Alms” picturing her life and Ray of Hope.
Through film, she was able to travel to some African countries to teach young people the Art of filmmaking with the aim of moving forward and helping young ladies in the creative industry. She started to work on her upcoming art exhibitions aimed at educating the public on the importance of art in our society. Her aim is to use Art and film as a tool to help address issues affecting youths and young women.