ABOUT US — WHO ARE WE?
From concept to broadcast, a single point of contact.
OUR STORY
Prod-Events is a Senegalese production, post-production and voice dubbing company, founded in Dakar. For over ten years, we have worked with brands, institutions and creators on their audiovisual projects, in Senegal and internationally.
OUR TEAM
Committed, meticulous and creative professionals. We place quality of execution and respect for deadlines at the heart of every project, because your reputation is ours.
THE FOUNDER
Bassirou Ndiaye
PRESIDENT AND CEO
He began at Studio Sankara, Didier Awadi's production and events company, where he worked in turn as location manager, artist manager and production manager.
He founded Prod-Events in Dakar in 2014.
He has worked on Canal+ original productions filmed in Senegal, under the banner of Keewu Production, a subsidiary of the Mediawan group — including Sakho & Mangane, the first French-language African series broadcast on Netflix — as production manager and post-production manager.
He also served as Director General of SOPA, the Beninese state-owned audiovisual production company. He currently runs Prod-Events from Dakar.
OUR SERVICES
Six disciplines, one house.
01
Production
Corporate films and TV commercials, documentaries and reportage, music videos and web content, art direction and casting, social media content. From script to shoot.
02
Production Management
Production services for shoots in Senegal: crewing, scheduling, permits, budgets and logistics.
03
Post-production
Video editing, colour grading, motion design and animation, audio mixing and mastering, subtitling and on-screen text. Your rushes become a finished product meeting broadcast standards.
04
Dubbing & voice-over
Voice-over work for TV, radio and web advertising, lip-sync dubbing for films and series, documentary narration. Art direction included.
05
DIT
Secure backup and metadata management, audio transcoding and synchronisation, quality control and live video monitoring, remote transmission of rushes.
06
Music composition
Original scoring for films and documentaries, jingles and branded sound design, TV and web theme music, orchestral and electronic arrangements. Delivered as WAV, MP3 and separate stems.
OUR WORK
Selected post-production credits.
Sakho & Mangane
Canal+ original series shot in Senegal. Post-production.
Manjak
Canal+ original series shot in Senegal. Post-production.
Terranga
Canal+ original series shot in Senegal. Post-production.
C'est la vie
TV5Monde series shot in Senegal. Post-production.
Black Santiago Club
Canal+ original series shot in Benin. Post-production.
Niani
Produced by Oxfam, shot in Senegal. Post-production.
Also in the catalogue: Grand Tortue-Ahmeyim — production services and post-production.
DUBBING AND LOCALISATION
International languages as well as local languages.
We adapt, direct the voices, record and mix in Dakar. Other languages are possible depending on the cast and the project.
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES
French · English · Arabic
REGIONAL LANGUAGES
Wolof · Pulaar · Bambara
01 Adaptation and lip-sync detection
02 Casting and voice direction
03 Recording, sound editing and mixing
04 Subtitling and broadcaster delivery
WHAT WE COMMIT TO
QUALITY
RIGOUR
CREATIVITY
CLOSENESS
Professional broadcast standard on every production.
Schedules kept and commitments honoured.
Original solutions, tailored to each project and each budget.
One dedicated contact, from concept to delivery.
THE STUDIO — OUR FACILITIES
COLOUR GRADING
EDITING AND FINISHING
MIXING
STORAGE
Dedicated light-controlled room, with a reference monitor calibrated by probe.
A single chain, from logging and ingest to master export.
Acoustically treated sound suite, with reference monitoring. Delivered to broadcaster standards.
Redundant storage and verified backups. Your rushes are kept for the duration of the project.
ALSO AVAILABLE
FACILITY HIRE
QUALITY CONTROL
ACCESSIBILITY
ARCHIVE RESTORATION
Grading suite, edit suite or sound suite by the day or by the week, with or without an operator.
Your masters will be checked and brought up to standard before being handed over to the broadcaster.
SDH subtitling, audio description. An increasing requirement among broadcasters.
Digitisation, image and sound cleaning, colour restoration.
CLIENTS — INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, COMPANIES AND NGOs
BEYOND SENEGAL
Benin · Togo · Mali · Guinea Conakry
Prod-Events has no branch offices. We work with partner companies chosen on a project-by-project basis.
Netflix · TV5Monde Afrique · Gaumont Télévision · Keewu Production · Studio Bagel · Kourtrajmé Afrika · Oxfam · Save the Children · World Vision Senegal · Natural Justice · RAES · Hiventy · TransPerfect · Carrousel · Assy Productions · Astou Production · Karoninka · Lumina · Dakar Séries