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.
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 […]
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In many parts of Africa, making a film can be a challenge due to under-developed infrastructure. Transportation hurdles, unreliable electricity, and a lack of experienced workers contribute to daunting prospects for filmmaking in the continent’s more remote locales. Nevertheless, the world is clamoring for African stories and with Netflix and others commissioning new content, the prospects for African film are looking bright. As difficult as conditions can be, the work of a new crop of directors including Mosese, Diop, Wauri Kahiu, Apolline Traoré and Rungano Nyoni is changing the image of the continent. Diop’s Atlantics tells the migrant story but reimagines it as an otherworldly horror; Traoré’s Moi Zaphira and Frontières are bracing female-focused stories about everyday life, while Nyoni has explored witchcraft
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