A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Tankodogo, Burkina Faso
Born:
September 4, 1962
Fanta Regina Nacro is well known for being the first woman from Burkina Faso, to direct a feature film and is a founding member of the Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs (The African Guild of Directors and Producers). She is an artist who explores the themes of African cinema while tackling issues surrounding illness such as AIDS and education for the Girl child. She represents the "New African Wave". Nacro's films tend to question the traditions of Burkina Faso, while looking at the relationship between tradition and modernity in today's world.
Assistant Director:
2000 Vendredi noir
Director:
1992 A Certain Morning
1995 Open Your Eyes
1997 Konaté's Gift
2000 Vendredi noir
2001 Bintou
2001 Don't Make Trouble!
2002 Mama Africa
2004 The Night of Truth
Writer:
1992 A Certain Morning
1995 Open Your Eyes
1997 Konaté's Gift
2000 Vendredi noir
2001 Bintou
2001 Don't Make Trouble!
2002 Mama Africa
2004 The Night of Truth
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.