Burkina Faso’s Film Industry Bounces Back – With Movies Made By And For Africans

“Whereas their predecessors shot lavish celluloid spectacles largely underwritten by European checkbooks, the younger generation of Burkinabé filmmakers are making low-budget movies shot on HD cameras with local funding and geared toward local audiences. Instead of thatched huts in the bush, they’re set in living rooms in the ‘burbs.”