African Film
This french-language film is the first feature length film by a sub-saharan african director
What is La noire de (Black girl) (ousmane sembene, 1966)
This is the panafrican film and television festival of Ouagadougou, established 1969, and is the most important film festival in africa
What is FESPACO
This french law exercised strict control over both filmmaking and film distribution in french african colonies. It was meant to prevent cinema from spreading anti-colonialist messages and effective banned colonized people from making films. Overturned in 1960
What is the 1934 Laval Decree?
Unlike Semebene's films, this movie freely uses the modernist techniques of global art cinema and looks/feels like a "new wave" film
What is Touki Bouki (the journey of the hyena) (djibril diop mambety, 1973)?
This musician, storyteller, and historian a key source of oral tradition in west africa and a guiding metaphore for the role of black african filmmakers
what is a griot?