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    2011 FESPACO winners announced

    The 2011 Pan African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) winners were announced recently at the biennially held film festival hosted in the capital of Burkina Faso. The festival caters for African film industry professionals, offering the chance to establish working relationships, exchange ideas and to promote their work.

    2011 FESPACO winners:


    • Golden Stallion of Yennenga: "Pegasus" Mouftakir Mohamed (Morocco)
    • Silver Stallion of Yennenga: "A Screaming Man"" by Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad)
    • Bronze Stallion of Yennenga: "The Ideal Guy" Owell Brown (Ivory Coast)
    • Prize of the European Union: "Our foreign" Sarah Bouyain (Burkina Faso)
    • Best documentary film school: "Oh whites" of Fatima Ouattara (Burkina Faso)
    • Best Fiction Film School: "White gold" Adama Room (Morocco)
    • Award for Best Actress: "Journey to Algiers by Abdelkrim Bahloul (Algeria)
    • Award for Best Actor: "A step below the corruption of Sylvestre Amoussou (Benin)
    • Best screenplay: "Journey to Algiers by Abdelkrim Bahloul (Algeria)
    • Award for best picture: "Mosque" Daoud A. Syad (Morocco)
    • Best Sound: "Pegasus" Mouhamed Mouftakir (Morocco)
    • Best Music: Wasis Diop for his contributions in three films in the official selection of Fespaco
    • Best scene: "Da Monzon conquer Samanyana" Sidy Diabate (Mali)
    • Award for Best Editing: "The weight of the oath" Kollo Daniel Sanou (Burkina Faso)
    • Award for best poster: "Tried the place ..." Dahmane Ouzid (Algeria)
    • Third Prize Documentary: "Indochina in the footsteps of a mother" of Idrissou Mora-Kpai (Benin)
    • Second Prize Documentary: "The Witches of Gambaga" Yaba Badoe (Ghana)
    • First prize in the documentary: "The unbroken spirit" Jane Murago-Munene (Kenya)
    • Award for best work in series TV / Video: "Ishmael the blundering" Mamadou N'Diaye (Senegal)
    • Special jury prize for a fictional TV / Video: Champions of Our Time by Kusari Mak (Nigeria)
    • Prix the best piece of TV / Video "Hoperville" of Trengoue John (South Africa)
    • Oumarou Ganda Prize: "Our foreign" Sarah Bouyain (Burkina Faso)
    • Paul Robeson Prize: "The Loves of a zombie," Arnold Antonin (Haiti)
    • Foal Bronze "Tienye n", Daouda Coulibaly (Mali)
    • Foal money: "Taboo" Merien Riveill (Tunisia)
    • Colt Gold Yennenga "Garagouz" Abdenour Zahzah (Algeria)

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