Jean-Marie Teno
Jean-Marie Teno (born 1954) is a Cameroonian film director and filmmaker, "one of Africa's most prolific filmmakers". Life. Teno was born in 1954 in Famleng in Bandjoun. He studied audiovisual communication at the University of Valenciennes and worked as a film critic for "Bwana Magazine" and as editor-in-chief at France 3. In 1983, he directed his first short documentary "Schubbah". In 1992 he made his documentary "Africa, I will pluck you" on the effects of colonialism and neocolonialism in Cameroon. In 1996, he made "Clando", which won the Audience Award at the 6th  African Film Festival in Milan, Italy. Jean-Marie Teno is also a producer of his own films with Les Films du Raphia. In 2007-2008, he was a Visiting Artist at Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and in 2009-2010 he was Visiting Professor at Hampshire College, Massachusetts. He lives between France, Cameroon and the United States. Rewards. Clando Head in the clouds Africa, I'll pluck you ... Water of misery Yellow fever taximan