Alhaji Barrie

EARLY LIFE

Alhaji Barrie was born to Hassan Barrie and Isatu Barrie in Gbendembu town. He attended the SLMWBO Islamic Primary School Gbendembu and continued to the Baptist Secondary School in Gbendembu. He furthered to the Humanity First Sierra Leone and got a Diploma in Information System Management. He proceeded to the Kingdom Actors Institute and obtained a Certificate in Film Production. He then went to the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology and obtained a Certificate in Career Guidance and Job Readiness. He is currently a Bachelors in Business Administration final year student at the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology. He is not married but has a beautiful daughter.

CAREER

Alhaji Barrie is a cinematographer, film editor, graphics designer, motivational speaker, writer, and filmtastic film facilitator that trains young up-coming filmmakers across Sierra Leone. He started his journey into the creative industry in 2008 with the Faith Production in Sierra Leone and has since been into it.

In 2018, he attended a film workshop in Freetown and got a master class training in Advance Camera Training (Settings and Handling, Composition (Framing, placement, shot size), Camera angles and moving camera techniques, Creative camera work, Sound recording training, Light setting (Sierra Leone Right on Film Training). In 2020, he also attended a film workshop in Makeni and had a master class training Advance film editing. Alhaji has reached a stage that is so enlarging to him and the young he coaches. He started climbing the platform in the year 2010 with Humanitarian Association of Artist Advocacy Network Domain Africa, a non-governmental organization as a Technical Supervisor.

In 2019, he won the Best Cinematographer Award from the Faces of the North Entertainment Award (FaNEA) Ceremony. In 2020 he won the Faces of the North Entertainment Award (FaNEA) in the category of the Best Cinematographer. In 2020, the organization engaged in training of young people in Filmmaking under the project “Tell your local story”, a project that would last for two years.

In 2018, he got in contact with the Weltfilm Organization, a German based nongovernmental organization in partnership with Sierra Leone Adult Education Association (SLADEA) that trains young filmmakers to do short films on global issues that affect young people. He was then trained as a film trainer on how to do video documentaries in different forms; and he did a short film documentary called “Luma Nor Day” in 2020 during the covid 19 period and this documentary won an award in Germany at the Black film festival.

In 2021 he was called to be part of the Faces of the North Entertainment Award (FaNEA) as head of the Technical and Cinematographers’ team.  In early 2022, he served as head of the Cinematographers and technical team for the “Salone Culture Alive Reality TV Show” in Sierra Leone.