Pascale Obolo (born 7 January 1967) is a Cameroonian film director and artist. A graduate of the

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in Paris

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she is noted for her feminist films documenting women in Hip Hop in the French suburbs and African musical culture. In 2005 she released her debut film, ''

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'', a tribute to calypso and Trinidad, which won numerous awards in 2006 including the

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and

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in New York. In 2008 she produced the short film ''La Femme invisible'' (''The Invisible Woman''). Her first full-length film was a documentary about Calypso Rose in 2011. Obolo co-founded the art magazine ''Afrikadaa'', and also participates in the

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(AABF). She has worked with the Goethe Institute in Cameroon for several years with what she describes as an "architecture-driven film-meets-print project".

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Cameroonian artists Cameroonian women film directors 1960 births Living people Cameroonian expatriates in France {{Cameroon-bio-stub