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Gaston Kaboré (born 1951) is a Burkinabé film director and an important figure in Burkina Faso's film industry. He has won awards for his films Wend Kuuni and Buud Yam. He is the founder of Imagine Institute, a school he opened in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2003, that provides workshops and residencies for film and television professionals.
The Harvard Film Archive is honored to welcome Gaston Kaboré, this year’s recipient of the sixth annual Genevieve McMillan and Reba Stewart Fellowship for Distinguished Filmmaking. Born in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and raised in the capital city of Ougadougou, Kaboré maintained a lifelong interest in his family’s rural heritage ...
Gaston Kaboré. Director: Zan Boko. Kabore started out as a history student at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures d'Histoire d'Ouagadougou and continued his studies in Paris where he received an MA.
Gaston Kaboré, né le 23 avril 1951 à Bobo-Dioulasso, au Burkina Faso, est un réalisateur, scenariste, producteur de cinéma, formateur et homme de culture burkinabè. Il est reconnu comme l'un des pionniers de l'industrie cinématographique au Burkina Faso.
Gaston Kabore. McMillan-Stewart Fellow 2002. Born in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and raised in the capital city of Ougadougou, Kaboré maintained a lifelong interest in his family’s rural heritage while pursuing studies that eventually led him to the Sorbonne in Paris.
Gaston Kaborè. Director. Biography. Burkina Faso. Gaston Kaboré was born in 1951 in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. He trained as a cinematographer in Paris at the École Supérieure d’Études Cinématographiques (ESEC) and completed a degree in history at the Sorbonne.
Gaston Kaboré is one of the leaders of a movement in African cinema which aims, in his words, "to root African cinema in African soil." Kaboré uses indigenous language as a medium of expression, and borrows techniques from Africa's heritage of oral storytelling to craft his narratives.
