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Dead WeightOn Monday evening, Yemane L. Demissie presented his recent film “Dead Weight” in the Diaspora section to the audienceat the French Cultural Institute. The Ethiopian director digs into the aftermath of the 1970s Red Terror Campaign.

In Los Angeles, Hewan an independentand accomplished Ethiopian has to face

once more her painful past after the death ofher mother. The return of her father who haddisappeared and the reappearance of her for-mer torturer will force her to heal her hiddeninjuries.The quality and precision of actress Mary“Aku” Inku's performance take us into theheart of the Ethiopian trauma, to the long

and winding way to cure. The master tapemixes in an artistic manner traditionalsongs and jazz melodies from the baize set-tings of residential areas where the film isset. This wonderful and hard film smoothlytouches on the taboo around the 1974'srevolution. Building on real facts, the direc-tor has thus chosen Hewan's case to tacklethe issue around the management of thememory of crimes committed by the mili-

tary junta. His opinion? “Feeling, becausethey effectively illustrate the deep changesthat followed this period unknown to youn-ger generations” “I really enjoyed the film. Te lights are won-derful! It marvelously delves into the issueof forgiveness and national reconciliation inpost conflict countries”, said a festival fanafter the screening at Petit Melies.

Charlotte Grenèche

Hewan, actress Mary “Aku” Inku and her former “torturer”

S enegal has embarked on a significantproject known as the Pan African Film

and Audiovisual Center of Dakar. The pro-ject is still at its inception phase but isalready receiving a lot of interest from theAfrican Film and Audiovisual Sector.Initiated under the African Renaissance, thefuture Pan African Film and AudiovisualCenter will provide to African film makersready access to production equipment. Thiswill reduce production costs and better pro-mote African Cinema. The Center willcover an area of 9 hectares and will be ableto accommodate any type of shootingthrough state-of-the-art technology inclu-ding digital systems. Screening rooms,auditorium, digital photo and video lab,shooting stages with lodges, editing roomsand a training center are some of the facili-ties that will be made available to African

Film and Audiovisual professionals at theCenter. This project clearly intends to havean African coverage. Film makers in Africahave been involved in the project feasibilitystudy and design and so will they be inmanaging the center through a Public

Private Partnership (PPP). Once comple-ted, the facility will enable African filmmakers to have ready access to all produc-tion tools which will save them time andresources in going to Europe to perfect

their work. We could therefore be proud tosay that African images are entirely produ-ced in Africa, by Africans and for Africans.May the project soon become a reality!!!

Thierry R.OUEDRAOGO

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A Senegalese Day at FESPACOFocus on the plans for a Pan African Film

and Audiovisual Center in DakarOn Monday 28th February 2011, the Embassy of Senegal in Burkina Faso joineditself to f i lm makers and other professionals of the movie industry to celebrate aSenegal day at FESPACO with a cocktai l party. The Senegalese day had three mainactions on schedule including tributes to departed fi lm makers, a professionalmeeting and a presentation of a futurist ic project supported by Senegal.

The panelists presenting their project with conviction.

The French Institute has been hol-ding since February 18th an exhi-

bition of visual art by the French artist,Patrick Singh. Organized in the framework of the 22ndedition of FESPACO this Exhibitionshows about 400 paintings.The issues addressed include AfricanDiaspora throughout the world, humandiversity and the internal aspects of the

human being. The exhibition at theFrench Institute simply shows theBlack in all his Aspects and feelings.These are great works by a professionalwho has been practicing for 30 years.And among them are paintings, objectsdesigned as books, classical note books and paintings. To achieve his works, Patrick Singhuses recovery items such as canvas,

paper, cardboard, newspaper and metal.The few visitors we met confessed thatthey are impressed by the realism ofcharacters as well as colors, textures andmaterials.The exhibition will end up on 12thMarch.

Boukary NITIEMA

Exhibition at the french instituteThe African Diaspora honored

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PublisherMichel OUEDRAOGO

SupervisorGervais HIEN

CoordonnatorJim Moumouni OUATTARA

EditorHamado NANA

Designer Ferdinand DABIREAbdoulaye DAME

Demba DIALLOB. Issa Daniel BAMBA

Editorial staffOumarou MOGMENGA

Hermann GOUMBRIFirmin OUATTARA

Thierry OUEDRAOGOBoukary NITIEMAPatrice KABORE

Mariam OUEDRAOGOFlavien BATIONO

TranslationBahisimine YOUL

Cathérine Prudence KPODADamatou BAGRE/COLOMPARE

Audrey KPOBLYRasmané KABORE

Sam COLE

Sonia TAMINIKeybord operators

Rihanata OUEDRAOGOHazara IRA

Aminata RAMDE

PrintingIndustrie Grafic du Faso

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1995 : “Guimba” by Cheick Omar Sissoko from Mali1997 : “Buud Yam” by Gaston Kabore from Burkina Faso

To be continued

The organizing committee of FES-PACO 2011 gets support from

268 volunteers of the NationalProgram of voluntary service inBurkina Faso (PNVB). Volunteers arepresent at FESPACO, at SIAO site (forMICA), in front of hotels, in film

screening halls, at Place de la Nation,at the press center and so on…and wearbadges and T- Shirt with PNVB andFESPACO logos. They are very dyna-mic and are involved in various com-missions.

Oumarou MOGMENGA

Symposium on” Africancinema and outlets” opens this

morning

A two days symposium with thetheme “Africa cinema and outlets “istaking off this morning at the natio-nal archives center (CAN) . Thismeeting will be divided into two dif-ferent breakout sessions which willbe addressing the following issues:- Situation analysis, access strate-gies and perspectives of African pro-ductions on the markets: acquisitionand distribution.- Funding, broadcasting, distributionof African audiovisual productionsand legal issues.Workshops will be held from 9: 30AM to 5: 00.For further information, pleasecontact: “RENCONTRE PROFES-SIONEL” office or the NationalArchives Center (CNA) on 78 78 8430/78 85 59 11.

Volunteers committed for thesuccess of FESPACO

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Neerwaya8 : 00 A.M “Pegase” by Mohamed Mouftakirfrom (Morocco)11: 00 A.M “Ithemba (l'Espoir)” by WebberErrol (Jamaica/USA)02 : 00 P.M “Mining for change a story fortSouth Africa mining” by Navan Chetty EricMiyeni (South Africa)04 : 00 P.M “Indochine sur les traces d'unemere” by Idrissou Mora-Kpai (Benin)06 : 30 P.M “Vivre ici (Beinghere)” byMohamed Zran (Tunisia)08 : 30 P.M “Esssaha ( La place)” byDahmane Ouzid (Algeria)10: 30 P.M “A small town called descent “byJahmil X.T Qubeka (South Africa)

Burkina8: 00 A.M “En attendant le vote…” by MissaHEBIE (Burkina Faso)

11 : 00 A.M “Winds of sand, Women ofRock” by Nathalie Borgers ( Belgium)02 : 00 P.M “Tabou” by Meriem Riveill(Tunisia)02 : 00 P.M “La metaphore du Manioc” byLionel Meta (Cameroon)02: 00 P.M “Les Sabres (Hasiki yasuada)” byCedric Ido (Burkina Faso)02 : 00 P.M “Tinye so” by Daouda Coulibally(Mali)02 : 00 P.M “Garagouz” by Abdenour Zahzah( Algeria)04 : 00 P.M “Restless city” by DosunmuAndrew Waheed (Nigeria)06: 30 P.M “Le mec ideal' by Owell Brown(Cote d'Ivoire)08 : 30 P.M “En attendant le vote …” byMissa HEBIE (Burkina Faso)10 : 30 P.M “ Da Monzon, la conquete deSamanyana” by Sidy F. Diabate (Mali)

Screenings of the day

On the occasion of the 22nd editionof FESPACO, several special pri-

zes will be presented to deserving cine-matographic works. The special prizegiven by LONAB (National Lottery ofBurkina Faso) known as “Prix del'Espoir “(Prize of Hope) is one of thosedistinctions. Made up of a trophy and an amount ofCFA 2,000,000 the prize aims at encou-raging the creativity of emerging talentsin the movie industry. The price of hopeis the fruit of a long term partnershipbetween LONAB and FESPACO. The trophy was carved at “CentreCulturel Barso” run by Burkinabe artistwith international recognition Jean-LucBAMBARA. It took him three months and severalstages to complete the work: Drawing,validation of the theme, wax moulding,

molding and bronze casting, finishingtouches with patina. LONAB solicitedhim for the 2009 special prize trophy. Given the quality of the trophy made forFESPACO 2009, he was called againfor this year's edition. The trophy represents a unified familywith dreams of greatness and success.The reference to cinema is quite obvioussince this is an everlasting world ofdreams, hopes and opportunities. On the evening of the awards ceremony,a film maker will be wielding this 5 KGbronze patina trophy. The artist's joy will be much moresignificant because his art will be pro-moting African cinema and that isexactly the magic with FESPACO: thealchemy of art.

Arsène Flavien BATIONO

Jean-Luc BAMBARA carves the « prize of hope »

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There are six mini buses rotating every thirty minutes with 4 main itineraries.ITINERARY N°1: Buses with registration numbers 11A 6433 and 11A 6055Itinerary : to and from: SIAO at FESPACO Headquarters via PACIFICHOTEL, SPLENDID HOTEL, PALM BEACH HOTEL, CINE BURKINA,SORITEL HOTEL, THE PRESS CENTER, RELAX HOTEL, RAN HOTELSOMKIETA and the FRENCH CULTURAL CENTER.ITINERARY N°2: Buses with registration numbers 11A 0775 and 11GH 3713Itinerary: to and from: AZALAI HOTEL, RELAX HOTEL, RAN HOTELSOMKIETA, FRENCH CULTURAL CENTER, FESPACO HEADQUATERS.ITINERARY N°3: Bus with registration number 11A 3623Itinerary : to and from: PALACE HOTEL, SPLENDID HOTEL, PALMBEACH HOTEL, CINE BURKINA, SORITEL HOTEL, PRESS CENTER,RELAX HOTEL, FRENCH CULTURAL CENTER and FESPACO HEAD-QUATERS.ITINERARY N°4: Bus with registration number 11 PP 5508Itinerary: to and from: HOTEL SILMANDE, CINE NERWAYA and FES-PACO Headquarters.

D uring the FESPACO festival, docu-ments are translated from French

into English while presenters make surethat English and French speakers are onthe same pitch of understanding at scree-ning sessions. This is made possible by the sub com-mission of translators and interpreterswhich is supervised by Mr BahisimineYOUL, mandated to make sure that anynews item published in the FESPACONews is well edited and handled with pro-fessionalism.This sub commission works assiduouslyevery day and each article is handled by ateam of two translators and cross-checkedby the entire team at the end of the day.All these are handled in a very relax andenjoyable atmosphere. The team is not content with the size oftheir office space because they are alwaysdisturbed by visitors who troop in and outfor enquiries and other matters which are

not related to their department. Another impediment is that articles to betranslated do not come on time and this isdue to unforeseen circumstances.

To all members of this sub-commissionwe say WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!

Boukary NITIEMA

The sub commission of interpreters and translators

Efficiency behind closed doors!!!

A formidable and pleasant team of translators and interpreters at FESPACO 2011.

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The Pan African Film and TV Festival of OUAGADOUGOU will like to express its gratitude to the following countriesand institutions for their contribution and support to the success of this 22nd edition of FESPACO:

THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF FRANCOPHONY,THE FRENCH MINISTRYOF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, UNESCO, UNICEF, RHONES ALPES, TV5, RFI, BURKINARADIO AND TELEVISION, SIDWAYA, L'OBSERVATEUR PAALGA, LE PAYS, NOTRE AFRIQUE, NOTRE AFRIQUE,ARTE, FASO-PLAST, AIR BURKINA, SODIBO, SONABEL, LONAB, AIRTEL, TELECEL, BANK OF AFRICA.

Appoline TRAORE (BurkinaFaso), the Films Selmon Director:

“I have a stand at MICA where allmy productions are exhibited, espe-cially Le Testament. I hope that thediscussions during this year's edi-tion will help us sell and promoteour films. FESPACO should be theopportunity for participants as awhole and film fans to make strongremarks and suggestions in order toimprove our productions”.

CHEICK OMAR SISSOKO(Mali) winner of the Etalon deYennega Award in 1995:

“I have faith in this new editionwhich I hope will end up well. I amglad to see that more countries suchas Mozambique and Tanzania are

participating in this festival withmovies. Egypt has come back again.In a nutshell, Africa as a whole iswell represented in all competingcategories”.

Missa Hébié (Burkina Faso), film-maker:

“My film “En attendant le vote” iscompeting in the feature film cate-

gory for the Etalon de YennegaAward which has recently beencompleted and no one watched ityet. I can tell you that I am the onlyone in Ouagadougou to have wat-ched it. And as the filmmaker, I can-not say much for the time being.People will only be able to watchthe film on Wednesday and thengive their opinion”.

Moussa Sourgou (Burkina Faso),actor:

“As an actor, I am expecting a lotfrom FESPACO 2011. I wish thegeneral public will participate intheir numbers and make it a wonder-ful success. I acted in the TV serie“Affaires Publiques”and deeplyhope it will be among the prize win-ners at this FESPACO edition.”

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