
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Directing
Benin-born, Senegal-raised filmmaker, theorist, and historian Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was a key figure, as both practitioner and thinker, in the creation and articulation of what a post-colonial African cinema would and could be. Along with producing essential texts like âFilm and the Problem of Languages in Africaâ and âRemarks on African Cinema,â founding the important FĂ©dĂ©ration Panafricaine des CinĂ©astes, and mentoring the likes of Ousmane SembĂšne, Djibril Diop MambĂ©ty, and Ababacar Samb-Makharam, Vieyra turned out a vital body of film work, documenting the birth of a new continental consciousness.













