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Filmmaker · Cameroon

Jean-Pierre Bekolo

Jean-Pierre Bekolo was born on 8 June 1966 in Yaoundé. He studied physics at the University of Yaoundé from 1984 to 1987, then at the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, in France, under Christian Metz, before working as an editor for Cameroonian television. His first feature film was presented at Cannes in 1992; he then made one of the first African science-fiction films, and a 2013 film about a long-ruling president was banned in Cameroon after a single screening. He teaches cinema at American universities and divides his life between France, the United States and Cameroon.

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