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Apolline Traore is the first ever female winner of the prestigious and coveted African Movie Academy Award (AMMA) for ‘Best Director’. She won the diadem on October 29 for her study of terrorism in the Sahel.
Since its founding in 1969, the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou – popularly known as Fespaco – has built a reputation as Africa’s most important film festival. Earlier this year, a panel of key Fespaco contributors convened in London to honour the festival’s legacy. Nadia Denton, the driving force behind the ‘Beyond Nollywood’ initiative, was present to capture the highlights.
Apolline Traore is the first ever female winner of the prestigious and coveted African Movie Academy Award (AMMA) for ‘Best Director’. She won the diadem on October 29fo r her study of terrorism in the Sahel. Though she is a native of Burkina Faso, her film, Sira, was shot in Mauritania for security reasons. Traore […]