Aminata Ouédraogo
Aminata Ouédraogo is a Burkinabé filmmaker and administrator. She is general coordinator of the Pan-African Union of Women in the Image Industry (UPAFI).
Aminata Ouédraogo
- Name
- Aminata Ouédraogo
- Occupation
- Filmmaker and administrator
- Birthplace
- Burkinabé
- Education
- Institut Africain d'Education Cinématographique (INAFEC).
- Nationality
- Burkina Faso
- Languages
- French
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Aminata Ouédraogo is a Burkinabé filmmaker and administrator. She is general coordinator of the Pan-African Union of Women in the Image Industry (UPAFI).
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• Name — Aminata Ouédraogo • Alma Mater — University of Ouagadougou • Occupation — Filmmaker and administrator • Notable Works — Alcoolisme, 1992 • Birthplace — Burkinabé • Education — Institut Africain d'Education Cinématographique (INAFEC). Film school at the University of Ouagadougou. Institut du Multimedia et Architecture de la Communication (IMAC) in Paris
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Life
Ouédraogo studied at the Institut Africain d'Education Cinématographique (INAFEC), a film school at the University of Ouagadougou, before studying at the Institut du Multimedia et Architecture de la Communication (IMAC) in Paris. Ouédraogo has advised the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO). In 1991, at the 12th FESPACO, she created the Association of African Women Professionals in Cinema, Television and Video (AFAPCTV). In 1995 the AFAPCTV was restructured as the Pan-African Union of Women in the Image Industry (UPAFI), with Ouédraogo as general coordinator. She is technical advisor to the Minister of Culture and Tourism in Burkina Faso.
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Filmography
• L'impasse, 1988. Fiction. • A qui le tour?, 1991. Documentary • Ak Patashi (Qui m'a poussé), 1992. Documentary. • Alcoolisme, 1992. Documentary.
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- 1.'Interview with Aminata Ouédraogo', in Ellerson, Beti, ed., Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film Video and Television, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000. Reprinted online at https://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Ouedraogo.html.
- 2.Sophie Hoffelt. Les femmes réalisatrices en Afrique subsaharienne. L'Afrique politique. 24. 1998. 978-2-86537-843-2.
- 3.Claire Diao, Aminata Ouedraogo : « Un jour, une femme remportera l’Étalon de Yennenga ! », africultures, 2 June 2009.
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