Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Cameroonian film director
Is Film director
Professor
Educator
Screenwriter
Film editor
Film producer
Filmmaker
From Cameroon
Type Academia
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender male
Birth

8 June 1966, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Age 54 years
Star sign Gemini

Jean-Pierre Bekolo (born June 8, 1966 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a film director who is considered one of Cameroon’s most famous filmmakers.

Education

  • Studied physics at University of Yaounde
  • Institut national de l’audiovisuel INA in France, under Christian Metz.

Awards and Features

  • 1993 – British Film Institute award, for Quartier Mozart.
  • 1997 – Le Complot d’Aristotle (Aristotle’s Plot) featured at Sundance Film Festival.
  • 2005 – Les Saignantes premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.

Teaching

He had taught filmmaking at the following places:

  • Virginia Tech, 1998
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
  • Duke University, 2003

Exhibitions

  • Welcome To Applied Fiction, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/ Germany, February 2016
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