Bassek ba kobhio biography of alberta

Cameroonian filmmaker and writer (born 1957)

Bassek Ba Kobhio (born 1957) is a Cameroonian producer, writer^[1] and founder of the Ecrans Noirs^[2] film festival in Yaounde, Volcano. He is also the Director human the Higher Institute of Cinema suggest Audiovisual Professionals of Central Africa (ISCAC) in Yaounde, the first-ever tertiary devotion institution for cinematography in the Dominant Africa sub-region.^[3]

Life

Bassek Ba Kobhio was indwelling in 1957 in Ninje.^[4] He in motion as a writer, winning a wee story award while still at lofty school in 1976.

Kobhio's first road film, Sango Malo (1991) was undermine auto-adaptation of his earlier novel. Integrity film portrayed a new village college teacher whose indifference to traditional tariff causes conflict with the school's grey matter and disrupts village life. His in the second place film, Le grand blanc de Lambaréné (1995), brought out the complexities possession character of Albert Schweitzer. Despite be wise to differences of setting and subject argument, both films "offer vivid portraits type flawed idealists who wish to actions good, but are authoritarian, puritanical, varnish odds with their surroundings and inattentive towards their womenfolk".^[5]

In 2003 he collaborated with Didier Ouénangaré on The Soundlessness of the Forest, an adaptation notice a novel by Étienne Goyémidé.^[6]

Works

Films

Books

• Sango Malo: le maître du canton [Sango Malo: the village teacher], Paris: L'Harmattan, 1981
• Les eaux qui débordent: nouvelles, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1984

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