Jean-Pierre Bekolo

Jean-Pierre Bekolo (born June 8, 1966 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a film director who is considered one of Cameroon’s most famous filmmakers.

Education

• Studied physics at University of Yaounde
• Institut national de l'audiovisuel INA in France, under Christian Metz.

Awards and Features

• 1993 - British Film Institute award, for Quartier Mozart.
• 1997 - Le Complot d'Aristotle (Aristotle's Plot) featured at Sundance Film Festival.
• 2005 - Les Saignantes premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.

Teaching

He had taught filmmaking at the following places:

• Virginia Tech, 1998
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
• Duke University, 2003

Filmography

• Quartier Mozart 80 min. 1992
• Le Complot d'Aristotle (Aristotle's Plot) 71 min. 1996
• Les Saignantes 93 min. 2005
• Le Président (The President) 65 min. 2013
• Les Choses et les Mots de Mudimbe 243 min. 2015
• A la recherche d’Obama perdu 52 min. 2015

• Naked Reality 62 min. 2016
• Afrique, la Pensée en Mouvement Part I et II . 2017
• Our Wishs TV Show. 2017

Exhibitions

• Welcome To Applied Fiction, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/ Germany, February 2016 ^[1]

References

External links

• Jean-Pierre Bekolo on IMDb
• The directors blog site
• Official web site for Les Saignantes
• Information about Le Président from the 34th Durban Film Fest
• Information about Bekolo at the Clinton Presidential Library
• Review from the Duke Chronicle
• Review of Les Saignantes (French)
• Review of Les Saignantes (French)