{"id":4457,"date":"2017-03-08T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2017-05-03T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:58:48","slug":"fespaco-2017-what-future-for-malian-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/fespaco-2017-what-future-for-malian-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"FESPACO 2017: What future for Malian cinema?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The challenges of the training and the jobs in cinema and broadcasting were at the heart of the debates at the 25th edition of the FESPACO, Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou, held from February 25 to March 4, in the capital of Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>This was an opportunity for Malian filmmakers to take part in the reflection on the problems that hamper the development of the film industry on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Malian cinema needs to rebound. Those who have studied in film academies will disappear in a short time and those who are coming are young people who have not had as much training as we have had. We really believe that there must be a policy that allows our children to go to universities to learn cinema \u00bb, says filmmaker Souleymane Ciss\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The existing training structures need to be strengthened, adds Cheick Oumar Sissoko, Malian filmmaker and general secretary of the Pan-African Filmmakers Federation (FEPACI).<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab We have a large multimedia arts and crafts conservatory where, in the multimedia section, young people learn how to edit and produce, but this is not a defined curriculum for training people to graduate \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sissoko, \u00ab a school of cinema costs very expensive \u00bb. And to consider: \u00ab Should we not favor integration and see the other schools that exist, how to get together to have a very large high-quality cinema school in each of the five regions of the continent \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>If all are in favor of the creation of cinema schools that meet international standards, the comedian Hamadoun Kassok\u00e9 believes that learners must make the effort to acquire a solid general knowledge in order to progress in the profession.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Before, those who studied drama at the National Arts Institute had a fairly solid background in literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, history &#8230; But today I notice that the level has fallen, he emphasizes.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Sory Kondo<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenges of the training and the jobs in cinema and broadcasting were at the heart of the debates at the 25th edition of the FESPACO, Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou, held from February 25 to March 4, in the capital of Burkina Faso. This was an opportunity for Malian filmmakers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture","7":"category-mali"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}