Cinema cultural exchange

courtesy of Cilia Sawadogo

Animator and film production professor Cilia Sawadogo was in Burkina Faso recently to show her work during a Canada-Quebec cultural exchange, and sent this photo of a typical village street. She said that as an African-Canadian, she found it especially exciting.

“The highlight was a three-day tour into villages where there is no electricity. We use the Fespaco Ciné-Mobile, a big truck with a generator, to project the films on a gigantic screen in the middle of fields and villages. People came by the hundreds to see our movies. It was an amazing experience.”