"We created FESPACO and FESPACO brings us ..." said a wise man to After the press conference last January 20 at the Forum des Images in Paris. When the lights come on the Biennale of Ouagadougou, African cinema turns 50. We can say, without a shudder of shame that this film still inexperienced naive style is looking for, yet we could not deny its pool of talents. BlackMap his way to celebrate the seventh African art. Until the end of this appointment, we will try to reconstruct the chain African film highlighting men and women who make up the mysteries of this art. To do this, directors, actors, in short all the links in this chain will take place each week to talk about their craft. The first to get on our boards is just the latest winner of the Stallion Yenenga Abderrahmane Sissako ...
The Panafrican Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou be held for the nineteenth consecutive year from February 26 to March 5, 2005. This rendezvous of all lovers of cinema was created in 1969 at the initiative of a group of moviegoers. Given the enthusiasm and hope generated by the public and filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, its institutionalization intervened three years later.
It will take three editions for the current format of the festival. At the sixth edition, it became biennial, beginning the last Saturday of February every odd year. FESPACO, whose acronym is a map of Africa red on yellow, barred by a roll of film and having a camera on his left black, is the largest film event in the continent.
Despite his young age and limited means, FESPACO not be ashamed to face other appointments of the same type. Over time, he gained experience and efficiency to the point of means to acquire attractive and consistent. Apart from the biennial festival itself and the competition reserved for films made by African authors that accompany it, also stands Marketplace International Film and Television Africans (MICA), but also an exchange of television programs on African and African (16mm, 35mm, TV and video) available to all film professionals.
And, finally, the creation of the African Film (film archives, databases and mobile cinema) and publications on African cinema (catalogs, Fespaco news, Fespaco newsletter).
should not believe that the Biennale is a commercial event, soulless nor humanism interested only film professionals. Mr. Baba Hama, Managing Director of the Festival at Press Conference at 20/01/05 the Forum des Images in Paris, was very well explained. Although this institution has clear objectives, such as promoting the dissemination of all the works of African cinema, allowing the contacts and exchanges inter, promote African cinema in international film festivals, it remains in the service of black people to help the growth, development and preservation of cinema as a means of expression, education and awareness.
Thus, film screenings are scheduled nonprofit towards rural areas in partnership with NGOs, associations, schools and other public and private institutions. Are also organized various events film: film weeks, movie previews, etc.. This spirit and desire to democratize themselves explains the theme of the 19th FESPACO: Education and Challenges of Professionalization. This great design begins with openness and information.
All is not perfect, there is still some way to make and projects to be undertaken. The new team does not miss the Festival. Some examples of current projects: the creation of an African film chain where each link will take its role and assume its responsibility, the establishment of a permanent film market, strengthening the database on African Cinema and Finally, the construction of the permanent seat of FESPACO. We wish them good luck and good luck!
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