By Leela JACINTO
FESPACO, as Africa’s largest film festival, has dealt with and projected the dreams and challenges confronting the continent. This year will be no different. At the 2011 festival the uprisings in North Africa are expected to dominate.
Africa’s largest and arguably most prestigious film festival opens Saturday in Ouagadougou, the capital of the tiny West African state of Burkina Faso, as the northern part of the continent has been rocked by seismic political changes resulting in the fall of longstanding dictators.
The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou, or FESPACO) has been running every second year since 1969 and has blossomed into the principal gathering and film bazaar for film-makers, producers, critics and fans from across Africa...[continued]
