Gaston Kaboré

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Gaston Kaboré is a Burkinabé film director. He was born in 1951 in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso.

He studied history in Paris, and returned in his native country to be director of the Centre National du Cinéma. His first feature film was only the third full-length film produced in Burkina Faso. His work for the screen, focusing on his country’s rural heritage, has received numerous international awards including a French César.

In 1997 he gains the first prize at the 15th Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) with the film Buud Yam.

At the moment he is chairman of the Panafrican Federation of scenario writers.

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