Professional collection
Directing
& audiovisual
- Directing · Cinematography
- Cinema · Documentary · Institutional
- Television · Live · Multicam
- Dark-Face Films · DPM Group
Audiovisual practice
This collection brings together work for cinema, documentary, television, live production and music. Depending on the project, Aboubacar Bablé Draba works across directing, cinematography and postproduction.
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Television, live & multicam
A live-directing practice combining multicamera capture, control-room operation, broadcast and technical coordination.
Field of practice
Aboubacar Bablé Draba directs live systems that combine multicamera capture, control-room operation, broadcast and technical-team coordination for concerts, festivals, television programmes and cultural events in Mali and Burkina Faso. Depending on the event, he deploys his own cameras, control room and crew.
From 2014 to 2015, he directed the television programme PHIPHI SHOW, broadcast on ORTM. This work forms part of a continuing practice in live directing and event production.
BAM’ART — Audiovisual production & live broadcast
Bamako · 2019–2025
From 2019 to 2025, DPM handled BAM’ART’s monthly audiovisual production: multicamera capture, live directing, video control-room operation, technical coordination and large-screen broadcast.
Control room & broadcast
Live milestones
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Cinema
Fiction, documentary and dance films: a recent selection centred on image-making and direction.
Recent films
- Aguelhoc & JawabatShort films · 2025Cinematography · Jawabat, Best Short Film at the Luxor African Film Festival
- Razões AfricanasDocumentary · 2024Camera · Mali unit
Dance films · Don Sen Folo
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Documentary & institutional
Field films, portraits and impact stories created for programmes and organisations, grouped by commission to preserve a clear editorial reading.
Video selection
Success Stories
Produced by Digital Production Média, the Success Stories series portrays entrepreneurs, craftspeople and professionals in their working environments. Each film foregrounds an individual journey, practical expertise and lived experience.
The portfolio presents the episode devoted to welder Jean Pierre Dembélé. The other portraits remain grouped within the same audiovisual collection.
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Music videos & musical imagery
Music videos were one of Aboubacar Bablé Draba’s first fields of directing, with part of this work credited under the name Lesky or Lessky Dopé. From the first Dark-Face Films productions to projects developed with DPM Group, this selection spans more than a decade of musical image-making.
Video selection
Archive reference
- Système MatiebelAAKOONI Dopé & SOS Dopé · 2015Directed by Dark-Face Films & L-Pacifico · Reference ↗
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Advertising & trailers
This selection brings together five pieces of advertising content and trailers from the professional corpus. Presented as production archives, they reflect the range of formats explored within audiovisual production.
Video selection
Credits
- Production labels
- Dark-Face Films · Digital Production Média / DPM Group
- Archive credits
- Aboubacar Bablé Draba · Lesky / Lessky Dopé
- Roles
- Directing · Cinematography · Filming · Interviews
- Postproduction
- Editing · Finishing · Communications content
- Formats
- Documentary · Institutional · Portrait · Music video
- Commissioned work
- Campaigns · Advertising · Sponsored reports
Production
Active before its legal establishment in 2019, Dark-Face Films develops projects across film, digital creation and education.
Digital Production Média, whose activity is continued by DPM Group, extends this experience into documentary and institutional films, audiovisual communication and live directing.