Jean-Pierre Bekolo

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, born in 1966, is one of the most well-known filmmakers in Cameroon. He already garnered attention at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut film Quartier Mozart (1992), becoming the representative of a new generation, following that of Djibril Diop Mambéty – in homage to whom Bekolo made La grammaire de grand-mère (1996) – that has been working against the restrictive expectations of African cinema, mixing genres and linking pop with politics. He produced LE COMPLOT D’ARISTOTE (1996) for the British Film Institute as part of a series that has included the participation of artists such as Scorsese, Bertolucci, and Godard. His avant-garde political thriller LES SAIGNANTES (2005) was nominated in two categories at the French Césars in 2009. In 2013 his feature film LE PRÉSIDENT was banned in Cameroon for political reasons. Alongside his work as a film director, Bekolo writes and publishes, in addition to teaching at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Duke University. Recently he has been dividing his time between the USA, France, and Cameroon, and starting in the summer of 2015 he will be a fellow of the Artists Program at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin.

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, born in 1966, is one of the most well-known filmmakers in Cameroon. He already garnered attention at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut film Quartier Mozart (1992), becoming the representative of a new generation, following that of Djibril Diop Mambéty – in homage to whom Bekolo made La grammaire de grand-mère (1996) – that has been working against the restrictive expectations of African cinema, mixing genres and linking pop with politics. He produced LE COMPLOT D’ARISTOTE (1996) for the British Film Institute as part of a series that has included the participation of artists such as Scorsese, Bertolucci, and Godard. His avant-garde political thriller LES SAIGNANTES (2005) was nominated in two categories at the French Césars in 2009. In 2013 his feature film LE PRÉSIDENT was banned in Cameroon for political reasons. Alongside his work as a film director, Bekolo writes and publishes, in addition to teaching at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Duke University. Recently he has been dividing his time between the USA, France, and Cameroon, and starting in the summer of 2015 he will be a fellow of the Artists Program at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin.

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, born in 1966, is one of the most well-known filmmakers in Cameroon. He already garnered attention at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut film Quartier Mozart (1992), becoming the representative of a new generation, following that of Djibril Diop Mambéty – in homage to whom Bekolo made La grammaire de grand-mère (1996) – that has been working against the restrictive expectations of African cinema, mixing genres and linking pop with politics. He produced LE COMPLOT D’ARISTOTE (1996) for the British Film Institute as part of a series that has included the participation of artists such as Scorsese, Bertolucci, and Godard. His avant-garde political thriller LES SAIGNANTES (2005) was nominated in two categories at the French Césars in 2009. In 2013 his feature film LE PRÉSIDENT was banned in Cameroon for political reasons. Alongside his work as a film director, Bekolo writes and publishes, in addition to teaching at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Duke University. Recently he has been dividing his time between the USA, France, and Cameroon, and starting in the summer of 2015 he will be a fellow of the Artists Program at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin.

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, born in 1966, is one of the most well-known filmmakers in Cameroon. He already garnered attention at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut film Quartier Mozart (1992), becoming the representative of a new generation, following that of Djibril Diop Mambéty – in homage to whom Bekolo made La grammaire de grand-mère (1996) – that has been working against the restrictive expectations of African cinema, mixing genres and linking pop with politics. He produced LE COMPLOT D’ARISTOTE (1996) for the British Film Institute as part of a series that has included the participation of artists such as Scorsese, Bertolucci, and Godard. His avant-garde political thriller LES SAIGNANTES (2005) was nominated in two categories at the French Césars in 2009. In 2013 his feature film LE PRÉSIDENT was banned in Cameroon for political reasons. Alongside his work as a film director, Bekolo writes and publishes, in addition to teaching at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Duke University. Recently he has been dividing his time between the USA, France, and Cameroon, and starting in the summer of 2015 he will be a fellow of the Artists Program at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Berlin.