By Leela JACINTO
"Ouaga Paradiso" is a sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, but always gripping documentary about four African film-makers plying their trade as they negotiate between cinematic hell and paradise.
Under the feeble light of a collapsing African cinema-hall in a dusty village in Burkina Faso, a wizened grandmother consoles her film-maker grandson after his disaster-plagued screening, where the projector has failed. The young man was ultimately forced to play his film on a tiny TV screen for a 200-strong audience...[continued]
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