Pascale Obolo

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

Pascale Obolo
Born (1967-01-07) January 7, 1967
NationalityCameroonian
Occupation(s)Film director
artist

A graduate of the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in Paris University of Paris VIII 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, Calypso at Dirty Jim's, a tribute to calypso and Trinidad, which won numerous awards in 2006 including the International Pan-African Film Festival of Cannes and African Diaspora Film Festival in New York.[1] In 2008 she produced the short film La Femme invisible (The Invisible Woman).[2] Her first full-length film was a documentary about Calypso Rose in 2011.

Obolo co-founded the art magazine Afrikadaa,[1] and also participates in the African Art Book Fair (AABF).[3] She has worked with the Goethe Institute in Cameroon for several years with what she describes as an "architecture-driven film-meets-print project".[4]

References
  1. "Pascale Obolo". Institute of African American Affairs. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  2. Barlet, Olivier (1 August 2016). Contemporary African Cinema. MSU Press. p. 337. ISBN 978-1-62895-270-4.
  3. "Parcours: Pascale Obolo, reine camerounaise de l'art contemporain". Jeune Afrique (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  4. "Pascale Obolo: the Cameroonian artist promoting a new kind of cultural criticism". True Africa. 20 September 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2017.


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