Host · Journalist · Producer · President and founder of Festival TV · Festival Explorer
Moïse 1er, the Festival Explorer — Montréal - Québec - Toronto
He signs every Festival TV article, he hosts its flagship shows, he founded the channel: Moïse 1er is the man of firsts — the first to film the festivals nobody was filming, the first to build a party television channel powered by artificial intelligence. Here is his story, his journey, and his pictures.
"Moïse 1er" is not a nickname: it is a program. He built his whole career on arriving first — first in the field, first with the concepts, first to believe that a party deserves an entire television channel. In 2006, in Guinea, he founded Festival TV. In 2026, the channel broadcasts 24/7 and he still runs it, microphone in hand.
A journalist-cameraman, host and radio-TV producer with more than ten years of experience in Africa and Canada, he masters the full chain: research, scripting, filming, interviews, editing, postproduction and multiplatform broadcasting — today augmented by generative AI, integrated into his editorial, audio and video workflows.
Festival TV, the first festive rolling-news television channel, dedicated to the parties and festivals of the world and to their whole ecosystem. Produced by AI, directed by HI — the human intelligence — of Moïse 1er.
Full name
Camara Moussa Moïse
Born in
Monrovia, Liberia
Nationality
Guinean
Based in
Montreal - Quebec City - Toronto
Festival TV
Founded in Guinea, in 2006 — he is its President and founder
The turning point
FESMAN III, Dakar, December 2010
Training
Degree in audiovisual journalism — ISIC Kountia, Guinea
On air
Festival Explorer · JT des Festivals · One Moïse Show · Décryptage · Chroniques
Languages
French · English — his shows also live in Wolof and Spanish
His full name is Camara Moussa Moïse. Moïse 1er was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and is a Guinean national. Trained as a journalist — a degree in audiovisual journalism from ISIC Kountia, Guinea (2007-2012) — he earned his stripes where everything begins for him: out on the festival grounds.
2006: Festival TV is born in Guinea. While West Africa's festivals were living their finest nights with barely a camera to tell them, Moïse 1er started covering them — in Guinea first, then in Mali, Senegal and across the region. From those reports, Festival TV was born: a television channel designed, from day one, for parties and festivals.
December 2010: the Dakar turning point. At FESMAN III, the World Festival of Black Arts, he experienced the celebration at the heart of the continent, on a scale he had never seen. It was not the birth of Festival TV — it already existed — but it was the trigger: the decision to devote his professional life to telling the story of the world's festivals.
The field years (2010-2017). Host and community manager at Afric Vision (2010-2014), he presented shows such as Bus Ambiance, Job Center and Sound System, covered MASA in Abidjan and the Festival sur le fleuve Niger, and co-hosted the African Revolution Tour 2014. Then came Morocco: a four-year production residency in Casablanca (Media Ciel), covering cultural events and working in the production control room of desert festivals — including the Taragalte Festival in M'Hamid El Ghizlane. The Sahara after the Niger River: an explorer's path takes shape.
Conakry, the studio years (2017-2022). TV production manager at CIS Media (2017), head of global and digital communications at the PROSMI Foundation (2018-2022), then journalist-columnist, host and presenter on Djoma TV from 2019: Moïse 1er became a familiar face on Guinean television, never leaving his line — festivals, culture, celebration. Meanwhile, Festival TV grew with him, and his show Festival Explorer aired on a private television channel in Guinea.
2023: Canada, through the festival door. He arrived in Quebec the way he has always arrived anywhere: through a stage. At MondoKarnaval, Quebec City's great multicultural festival, he co-hosted the main stage in a noted trio with Florent and Rosine. Sitanews wrote that he was the first Guinean presenter to make such a sensation on the stage of a festival of this scale, supported by the federal government of Canada and the provincial government of Quebec. His Canadian story begins at MondoKarnaval — and that is why MondoKarnaval's press conference will remain in Festival TV's loop forever.
Since then, the Quebec and Canadian stage. In Montreal, his name appears in full on the official poster of the 40th edition of Nuits d'Afrique: "Animation: Moïse 1er", at Club Balattou. His concept show, the One Moïse Show — music, humour, slam, dance and storytelling — toured Canada from the fall of 2025, before its grand premiere edition on June 12, 2026, at La Scène Lebourgneuf in Quebec City. And Festival TV became what he had imagined in 2006: a 24/7 festive news channel — produced by AI, directed by HI — the human intelligence — of Moïse 1er.
Today, between Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto, Moïse 1er runs Festival TV, hosts Festival Explorer and the JT des Festivals, writes the Chroniques de Moïse 1er, and keeps doing exactly what he started in 2006: arriving first where the party happens, and telling it like no one else.
Concepts he created, hosts and signs — often copied, never equalled: with Moïse 1er, the format is always born before the trend.
His signature show, born in Guinea and aired on a private channel before becoming Festival TV's great field magazine: festivals told from the inside, by the man who lives them.
See the show page →
His concept show: humour, slam, music, dance and storytelling, on a Canadian tour from 2025 and in a grand premiere edition on June 12, 2026, at La Scène Lebourgneuf in Quebec City.
See the show page →
The channel's newscast: verified news of the parties and festivals of the world, under his editorial direction.
See the show page →
His eye, his advice, his pen: the formats where Moïse 1er decodes the festival world and signs his columns, week after week.
Read a Chronicle signed by Moïse 1er →
The portrait, the stage, the field, the backstage: twenty years of parties in pictures — all real, all from the house.
Moïse 1er also has his animated character: the explorer in bogolan, globe on his back — the version that dances in the jingles and presents the announcements on air.
Every Festival TV article ends with his signature — his photo in a suit, in a circle, his contacts, and the link to this profile. Here are three, to start:
Festival hosting, show presenting, Festival Explorer coverage of your event, media invitations or sponsorship of one of his shows — his official contacts:
[email protected] · +1 367 382-2499 (phone and WhatsApp) · +224 626 00 00 25 (WhatsApp, Guinea).
Find him also on his Facebook Page, in the channel's program schedule and on his host page.