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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Idrissa Ouédraogo
Description: BurkinabĂ© filmmaker Idrissa OuĂ©draogo (21 January 1954 â 18 February 2018) was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival for his film TilaĂŻ. Much of OuĂ©draogo's work deals with the tensions between rural and city life and tradition and modernity in his native Burkina Faso. Matthew Sweet is joined by Boukary Sawadogo who teaches cinema studies at City College of New York and New Generation Thinker Sarah Jilani.Boukary Sawadogo is the author of books including âWest African Screen Media: Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalizationâ and âAfrican Film Studies: An IntroductionâProducer: Torquil MacLeod