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Article: Where the vultures don't wear Armanis. (14th Panafrican Film and Television Festival, Ouagadougou, Burkino Faso)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- March 13, 1995
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If it weren't for the vultures circling overhead, it could be a scene from Cannes. Around the pool of the Hotel L'Independance, producers, directors and actors do the usual strutting and posing. Yet instead of a cool Mediterranean breeze, it is a harmattan, or desert wind, that blows in from the Sahara. And the banners say the 14th Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) illustrates the "Decolonization of Our Screens."
Welcome to the only film festival in the world where the vultures don't wear Armani suits. Since 1969, Africa's premier film festival has been held in Ouagadougou, the dusty capital of Burkina Faso, one of the world's ...