Dakar, Senegal
Pictoon Animation
Pictoon's studio in Dakar is quite rustic, but the production quality coming out of Africa's only animation house devoted to long-format films is world-class. Founder and Artistic Director, Pierre Sauvalle, says when he shows Pictoon's work to foreigners, they often don't believe it comes from Africa, assuming goods produced in Africa must be inferior. Pictoon's aim is to produce to international standards.
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In The Land Of Warriors Filmmakers Strike A Decisive Blow
By Rosalind McClymont
We kept staring at all of the elderly men in elegant robes, hoping one of them was Ousmane Sembene, Senegal's most admired filmmaker and the acknowledged father of African cinema. None of us knew what he looked like. But he would be coming, we were told, to celebrate the opening of this year's African Film Festival, the nine-day extravaganza of screenings and panel discussions in New York City that, since 1993, has allowed Americans to experience some of the best of African filmmaking. His new film, Moolaadé, a blistering attack on female circumcision, was to be shown during the festival.
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