“I look at how its history, traditions and ancestral beliefs inform contemporary African and the Diaspora societies, and at the societal changes they experience in our post modern world. Through storytelling, I subsequently explore ways to bridge the old and the new to create integrative more just communities, using my work to trigger social change and define new identities. My films’ topics aim at challenging status quo for the elevation of the collective consciousness.” The environment Matamba grew up in in Gabon is one of a thousand realities, where the spirit world plays an integral part of life and oral tradition is society’s foundation. Over the past years, she’s lived successively in Europe and America, becoming a global citizen, delving in her native culture to make sense of the various worlds she became familiar with and using it as a connector with the many communities from the Diaspora she went on knowing. After obtaining a Postgraduate Degree in Fashion & Luxury Management at the Institut Francais de la Mode in Paris in 1997, she pursued a career as a special events producer in the luxury industry in New York, managing often larger than life productions for 10 years, executing concepts created by fashion designers to showcase their latest creations or products to select audiences. Over the past 8 years, she has immersed herself in intense self-studies of screenwriting and directing in New York where she is based and worked as a scenic artist on the set of Tanya Hamilton’s Night catches Us in 2009. She fine-tuned her filmmaker’s education with workshops at Ela Their’s Independent Film School in 2014. She now develops her scripts and short films while being an active figure in social profit enterprises. She has initiated the development of the feature animated creation myth Ebando and of the live action drama Black Car, a murder investigation set in a fictive African Republic. She's recently written, photographed, directed and edited two experimental short films, A Walk in Beauty and A Walk in Purpose, in which she explores narrative forms through diaries. A Walk in Purpose screened at festivals in Europe and the USA. Her third short, Telesourd, which she wrote, directed, and shot in April 2015 in Gabon, is currently doing the festival circuit, and has screened internationally. .