Cinema Of Gabon
The cinema of Gabon has had an uneven history. Though President Omar Bongo and his wife, Josephine Bongo, encouraged filmmaking in the 1970s, there was a 20-year hiatus until filmmaking started to grow again in the new millennium. History French companies made documentaries in colonial Gabon from 1936 onwards. After independence, Philippe Mory, Gabon's first professionally trained actor, organized the Compagnie Cinematographique du Gabon in 1962, and helped produce ''The Cage (1963 film), The Cage'', a feature film entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. The national television company supported films like Pierre-Marie Dong's ''Carrefour humain'' (1969) and Mory's ''Les tams-tams se sont tus'' (1972). Though Gabon had only eight cinemas, President Omar Bongo and his wife Joséphine Bongo took a direct personal interest in film. The President built a 400-seat cinema in his presidential palace, and in 1975 founded the Centre National Du Cinéma with Mory as director. He also fo ...
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