Sibbie Alpha Sibbie; Sierra Leone #1 movie Director

Sibbie Alpha Sibbie is a household name in the Sierra Leone film industry, as a young film maker who commands high respect from many, Sibbie has proven beyond many vague doubt as a professional film maker with endless passionate passion for his career. Born to his Sherbro parents Mr. Amidu Sibbie and Mrs. Sarah Caulker on 17th November 1994 at Moyeama in Bonthe District. He is the eldest child with six siblings. Sibbie hailed from a small fishing island in Bonthe but was raised in Gbangbatoke, Moyamba District where he started his primary and Junior secondary education. As a young boy, Sibbie developed passion in arts and writing. He was well known for drawing at a tender age and he wrote his first unpublished biography novel while he was in JSS II. After his BECE examination, Sibbie proceeded to Government Secondary School in Bo (Bo School) until after his WASSCE examination. Whiles in Bo School, Sibbie joined the famous OBBA drama group and he acted in many plays during OBBA celebrations in the School. He developed desperate passion for acting and decided to join a movie group where he started as PA (Personal Assistant) to his director Kenneth K. Moriba in Bo. With his love for writing, he worked with his director as an apprentice who started showing him the formats and principles in screen writing.
Few years later, Sibbie directed his first movie (Fruit of Life) at the age of 18 in 2013. This movie had a national distribution across the country by Destiny Electronics in Bo.Sibbie is presently pursuing a higher diploma certificate in procurement and Supply
Management at Ipam, University of Sierra Leone. He is a well established film maker and an author with many unpublished manuscripts. He is also a poet and a member of Sierra Leone Writers Association and the Sierra Leone Writers Series.
Sibbie is presently working on a photography studio as an aside to his film career. Besides filming and writing, Sibbie is also an entertainment blogger and the CEO and Chief Editor at South Side Magazine (an online entertainment journal)As a reputable movie director and undoubtedly one of the best in the country, Sibbie hit the spotlight after directing Tribal War (a movie that was banned from the market due to the public perception of the title) since then, he had got a seat amongst prominent film makers in the country. In 2016, Sibbie was awarded best screen writer and best movie director at the Bo Entertainment Awards (BEA) just after Tribal War saga.
The following year he directed Land of Doom, an epic movie that had over twenty thousand sales across the country. This movie also bagged many awards the same year it was released.
In 2018, Sibbie directed two mega movies, Bloody Affairs (a high budget action packed movie) and Kornya (First Union Film in the country) produced by Bo Film Union. After the released of Kornya, the movie left many people appraising the young man for visualizing such a great story. In July 2019, Sibbie was awarded best Sierra Leone movie director at the SLAAM awards in Maryland. That was two months after he received best movie director awards at Bo entertainment awards Vol 4. (The second time to win this award)
In December, Sibbie was given a honorary award for his hard work at Bona awards in Bo and the following week he again bagged Sierra Leone best movie director at the national entertainment awards (NEA) at Kimbima Hotel in Freetown. Sibbie’s name got mentioned on many lips, newspaper headlines and social media including entertainment blogs for his emulating achievements. In January 2020, Sibbie had another nomination at the New School Awards (NSA) that was to be held in March at Radisson Blu hotel in Freetown but was postponed due to the Corona outbreak.In June 2019, Sibbie traveled to Ghana with other film makers for a month film making and media for peace training in Koforidua (Eastern part of Ghana). The training was organized by Weltfilme.org in collaboration with YMCA Ghana, SLADEA (Sierra Leone), NEOL (Liberia) and University of Gambia (Gambia) Sibbie had an outstanding performance representing the Sierra Leone flag in out there.
Since his return, he has been helping many film makers on conventional film making techniques especially in screen writing. He has also been having online Lectures (On acting and screen writing specifically on WhatsApp groups) with the general aim of helping emerging film makers.Sibbie has also directed many movies that are yet to be released but most of these films have already gained public demand. In late 2018, he directed Private Sorrow (a tragic romantic epic movie)
In April 2019, he also directed Soul Mates (a romantic movie based on reincarnation) He featured a popular Sierra Leonean rising actor in Ghana Tamba Korngomanyi. Both movies were produced by Patricia Rose Tucker under “We Yone Concept Multimedia”. Sibbie has also written scripts for Sierra Leonean film makers in the diaspora. He also has projects he will soon embark on before 2020 finally unfolds.In Bo, Sibbie commands much respect from actors and colleague directors for his immense contribution in filming. He is the chairperson for screenwriters guild in Bo Film Union and he is working much hard to help screenwriters attain basic knowledge of screen writing to enhance their professionalism.
Sibbie is a mentor with achievements and passion worth emulating.
He is a hero.