- Gaston Kaboré
Gaston Kaboré (born 1951) is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry.Citation
title = Burkina Faso gets new film school
newspaper =BBC
date = 2005-03-01
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4305449.stm
accessdate=2008-02-11] He has won awards for his films "Wend Kuuni " and "Buud Yam ".Biography
Kaboré was born in 1951 in
Bobo-Dioulasso in Upper Volta.cite book
last = Eke
first = Maureen N.
coauthors = Kenneth W. Harrow, Emmanuel Yewah
title = African
publisher =Africa World Press
location =Trenton, New Jersey
year = 2000
pages = 31–39
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jHhfkH8GD18C
isbn = 0865438196
oclc = 43083199]He studied history at the
Sorbonne inParis ,France , receiving hislicense and Maîtrise (Master's) degrees. While researching the history of racial prejudice against Africa by its colonisers for his Maîtrise, Kaboré was drawn to contemporarydocumentary film s which, he felt, continued to propagate such stereotypes. To better understand the "language of cinema", he decided to go to film school. Originally intending to use film as a medium for disseminating historical knowledge, he gradually grew passionate about film for its own sake. He received his degree in Film Production in 1976. He returned to his native country to be director of the Centre National du Cinéma. His film "Wend Kuuni" was only the second feature film produced in Burkina Faso. His work for the screen, focusing on his country’s rural heritage, has received numerous international awards, including a FrenchCésar award .In 1997 he won the first prize at the 15th
Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) with the film "Buud Yam ".From 1985 to 1997 he was the ll as Secretary-General of Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers.cite web
title = Interview with...Gaston Kaboré
publisher =UNESCO
url = http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26989&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
accessdate =2008-02-11 ] Since 2005 he has had a training school, Imagine, inOuagadougou which trains professionals in the television and cinema industries.Filmography
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Wend Kuuni " (fy|1982)
*"Zan Boko " (fy|1988)
*"Rabi" (fy|1992)
*"Lumière and Company " (fy|1995)
*"Buud Yam " (fy|1997)Notes
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*imdb name|0434095
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