After a master’s degree in sociology and a bachelor’s degree in arts and cultural mediation, the documentary appeared to him to be a suitable tool to put together his passions. On June 2010, he directs his first film after obtaining a master in documentary direction at the Gaston Berger University of St-Louis, in Senegal. Bakoroman (2011) was his first professional film. Simplice has participated and was awarded in numerous festivals around the world
Doclisboa wants to question the present of film, bringing along its history and assuming cinema as a mode of freedom. By refusing the categorization of film practice, it searches for the new problematics that cinematic image implies, in its multiple ways of engagement with the contemporary.
Doclisboa tries to be a place to imagine reality through new modes of perception, reflection, and possible new forms of action.
