Fespaco 2007
Fespaco, the biennial African film festival in Ouaga, opened yesterday. Sadly, the Fespaco website is hideously uninformative. There is no list of films competing for the Etalon d'Or. I do know that Mak Kusare's 90 degrees (see a post from a couple or so months ago about the young Nigerian director) is being shown, which will mark a change for the francophone-dominated event. In time, quality Anglophone West African film should come to challenge the French-speaking film hegemony. Meanwhile, can any film other than Bamako win (assuming its in the running)? Click here for something on the Beeb's site about this year's event.
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One of my professors is currently there, so I'm looking forward to a first hand account after next week. In the meantime, I'm brainstorming on taking a road trip from Kano to Ouagadougou in two years for the next FESPACO... Would probably be a bit of a hassle and take a couple of days, but if enough people signed on, could be a nice excursion and (probably) cheaper than flying.
Hi,
Have your professor check out Dollars and Dreams: West Africans in New York by Jeremy Rocklin. It is English with French subtitles, very interesting story of West Africans living in New York.
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