Boulou Ebanda de B'béri

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Dr. Boulou Ebanda de B'béri is a filmmaker and Professor of Film, Communication, and Cultural Studies at the University of Ottawa's Department of Communication. A graduate of the University of Montreal, he obtained a PhD from Concordia University in 2003.

B'béri's films include Looking for My Pygmalion: Mémoires ^[1], a documentary film about being black, and exploring racial issues in Quebec. He has been a visiting scholar and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara ^[2] and Northeastern University, Boston. He won the 2003 Van Horne Prize ^[3], and is the author of articles on African Cinema and Cultural Studies, including his 2000 edited volume of the Journal of Film Studies, Écritures dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire, ^[4].

His research deals with the impact of oral tradition in black cinema, the materiality of images and the modality of knowledge transmission in intercultural milieu, and the articulations of identity-politics in various independent cinemas.