Machérie EKWA BAHANGO is a Congolese writer and director passionate about cinema. Maki'la was her first feature film as a director. A story about an orphaned girl forced to fend for herself on the streets of Kinshasa. It got picked up by Alain Modot of the International Distribution of Films and Fiction from Africa (DIFFA), gained backing from Orange Studio in Paris and won her the Golden Screen Award at the 2018 Ecrans Noirs film festival.

Her 48 minute 2020 film, Sema advocated for women's rights and thematised the issue of sexual violence and won an award as "Best International Film" at the DC Independent Film Festival 2020 in Washington.

Machérie was invited to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time in 2017 as a young talent invited to a round table organized by the OIF and the French Institute. In December 2017, Machérie was selected for the Berlinale Talents 2018 program but was unable to participate because coincidentally her film Maki'la was also selected the same year at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival in the Forum section.

Her film Maki'la has made about twenty festivals around the world and has won several awards such as the JCC Jury Prize and the Golden Screen at the Festival Écrans Noirs in Yaoundé. In 2015, Machérie translated the script for Alain Gomis 2017 film Félicité into her native language, Lingala. Machérie is self-taught and has worked as a screenwriter for the French Language TV series "Ndakisa" which aired on Congolese National television.