Bekolo Biography

Jean-Pierre Bekolo
filmmaker- film professor - public servant
lives between Cameroon, Toronto, Paris, Brussels, Durham NC, Little Rock AR (USA)
works in French and English


Feature Films

2005 LES SAIGNANTES - Quartier Mozart Films - France- Cameroun
1994-1996 ARISTOTLE'S PLOT - JBA Productions Zimbabwe, South Africa UK, France, Canada.

Part of British Film Institute 100 years of cinema's series along with Martin Scorsese, Stephen Frears, Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, George Miller...

1991-1992 QUARTIER MOZART - KOLA CASE France Cameroun.


Other Films
1996 LA GRAMMAIRE DE GRAND’MERE Johannesburg
Interview of filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal.

Television Releases
Channel 4 UK, TV5 Canada-France-Afrique, Canal Plus France, VPRO Hollande, CFI, Afrique...

Theater Releases
Kino USA, Sachtel & Margo Films FRANCE, Import Spor Distribution DANEMARK, Kola Case AFRIQUE...

Awards
1997 ARISTOTE'S PLOT Winner Prized Pieces Film Awards, Pittsburgh USA The National Black Programming Consortium.
1993 QUARTIER MOZART Nomminated for the British Film Awards along with Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs
1992 QUARTIER MOZART Cannes Film Festival Prix Afrique en Création.
1992 QUARTIER MOZART Locarno Film Festival Prix Swissair - Prix Carte Jeunes.
1992 QUARTIER MOZART Montréal World Film Festival Mention Spéciale du Jury.

Press
Variety, Premiere, New York Times, Hollywood, Reporter, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Canard Enchaîné, New Yorker, The London Times, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Studio, Liberation, Africa International, Cameroon Tribune,The Globe & Mail, Continental, Le Messager, The Weekly Mail, Tessiner Zeitung, Il Giorno, Eco di Locarno ...

Festivals

ARISTOTLE’S PLOT
1998 Smithsonian - Marseille - Carthage
1997 Sundance Film Festival - Rotterdam - Amiens
1996 Toronto Film Festival

QUARTIER MOZART
1998 Budapest, Marseille, Perugia
1993 Lincoln Center , London, Jerusalem, New Delhi, Chicago
Dublin, Götenborg, Copenhagen, Geneva, Washington, Philadelphia, Ouagadougou.
1992 Cannes, Locarno, Montréal.

TEACHING POSITIONS
2003 Fall DUKE UNIVERSITY Literature Department Film & Video Program

2000-2001 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT

1998 Spring VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Artist in Résidence

1995 UNESCO Project Southern Africa Zimbabwe

TELEVISION PROJECT
2004 EVENEMENT TELEVISION 4 Promoter of a local Television for Developpement in Yaounde - Cameroon in partnership with the city of Yaoundé.


Affiliations
Member of Comité d’Orientation of FEMIS since 2000.
Member of SACD (Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques).
Member of SRF (Société des Réalisateurs de Film)
Membre of UPF (Union des Producteurs de Films)