It is not surprising that Africa hundreds if not thousands of festivals, each year. Most festivals have a long history of celebrating local culture, historical events and religion. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is not one of the best known of Africa, and yet every other year in Ouagadougou, houses one of the most internationally renowned festivals, film and Pan-African Festival Africa Television (FESPACO).
FESPACO began in 1969 by a group of international cinema enthusiasts who wanted to promote a realistic image of Africa and its worldview. The festival was an early robust and secure, but since 1979 the festival every two years from the last Saturday in February every odd year.
The first festival in 1969 was the participation of five countries in Africa and two in Europe, with 24 films, including 18 from Africa and an audience of 10 thousand people. First, the selected films only in Africa. Over the years later he expanded his scope to the production of the filmmakers of the African Diaspora in the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean belong. The 2011 (19) hosted more than 80 countries, 170 films and hundreds of thousands of visitors.
The Pan African Film Festival is an opportunity for African filmmakers, producers, actors and writers to show their own video art. There is also an excellent opportunity for networking professionals other films from around the world and learn from their colleagues on the continent. The objectives of the festival are on the market of African cinema, to promote African cinema to post messages to promote films in rural areas, and African cinema on the international markets.
FESPACO goals are the promotion of African cinema, to make by promoting the dissemination and transfer of all African film inside and outside of Burkina Faso, and providing a platform for industry people and their experiences.
Not many film festivals around the world take place in old cinemas open, the projectors are equipped with outdated, missing even more in taxis ferry visitors around door handles and brakes. It’s all part of what the Pan African Film Festival a unique and enchanting.
Because the festival in Burkina Faso is for so many years now hosted namaed the central square of Ouagadougou City filmmaker. Despite the small size of Ouagadougou (population just over 100,000), it has more cinemas than any other city in West Africa. Many are open air with all seats in the full heat of the night of the Sahel during the festival.
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