Bassek Ba Kobhio (born 1957) is a Cameroonian filmmaker, writer and founder of the
Ecrans Noirs
Ecrans Noirs Festival is a film festival in Yaoundé, Cameroon. It has been characterized as "Central Africa's largest cinema event".
The Ecrans Noirs Festival, run by an organization of the same name, was established in 1997 by the filmmaker Bass ...
film festival in Yaounde, Cameroon. He is also the Director of the Higher Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Professionals of Central Africa (ISCAC) in Yaounde, the first-ever tertiary training institution for cinematography in the Central Africa sub-region.
Life
Bassek Ba Kobhio was born in 1957 in
Ninje.
He started as a writer, winning a
short story award while still at high school in 1976.
Kobhio's first feature film, ''Sango Malo'' (1991) was an auto-adaptation of his earlier novel. The film portrayed a new village school teacher whose indifference to traditional customs causes conflict with the school's headmaster and disrupts village life. His second film, ''
Le grand blanc de Lambaréné'' (1995), brought out the complexities of character of
Albert Schweitzer. Despite clear differences of setting and subject matter, both films "offer vivid portraits of flawed idealists who wish to do good, but are authoritarian, puritanical, at odds with their surroundings and neglectful towards their womenfolk".
In 2003 he collaborated with
on ''
The Silence of the Forest
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'', an adaptation of a novel by
Étienne Goyémidé
Étienne Goyémidé (22 January 1942 – 17 March 1997), was a Central African writer and playwright. He is notable as the writer of critically acclaim novels ''Le silence de la forêt'' and ''Dernier Survivant de la caravane''.
Personal life
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Works
Films
* ''Sango Malo'' / ''The Village Teacher'', 1990
* ''
Le grand blanc de Lambaréné'' / ''The Great White Man of Lambaréné'', 1995
* ''Musique s'en va-t-en guerre''
usic goes to war 1997. Documentary.
* (with
) ''
Le silence de la forêt'' / The Forest'', 2003
Books
* ''Sango Malo: le maître du canton''
ango Malo: the village teacher Paris: L'Harmattan, 1981
* ''Les eaux qui débordent: nouvelles'', Paris: L'Harmattan, 1984
References
External links
*
Bassek Ba Kobhio African Film Festival, Inc.
African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) is a non-profit cultural organization that presents an annual film festival and year-round community programs. Based in New York City, the organization was founded in 1990. The organization is dedicated to promo ...
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1957 births
Living people
Cameroonian film directors
Cameroonian film producers