Idrissa Ouedraogo
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-01-21 (64 years old)
Deathday
2018-05-01
Place of Birth
Banfora, Upper Volta [now Burkina Faso]
Also known As
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Idrissa Ouedraogo
Biography
Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in Banfora, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), in 1954. He grew up in the town of Ouahigouya in the northern region of his homeland, and in 1976 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. To ensure a better life his farmer parents sent him to Ouagadougou for further education, where he attended the African Institute for Cinema Studies (Institut Africain d’Etudes Cinématographiques) completing his studies in 1981 with a masters. After studying in Kiev in the USSR he moved to Paris, where he graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in 1985 with a DEA from the Sorbonne. On graduating from IA...
Acting
Production
2002
as Director
1990
as Director
1989
as Director
1989
as Screenplay
1997
as Director
2004
as Producer
2004
as Writer
1995
as Director
1993
as Director
1987
as Director
1987
as Writer
1983
as Director
1985
as Director
1984
as Director
1991
as Director
1994
as Director
1981
as Director
1995
as Director
1997
as Director
1981
as Assistant Director
1993
as Writer
1993
as Producer
2008
as Director
1989
as Producer
1990
as Producer
1996
as Producer
2003
as Director
1990
as Writer
2022
as Director
2022
2008
as Director
1995
as Writer
2003
as Writer
2002
as Writer
1991
as Director
1997
as Writer
2004
as Executive Producer
2002
as Director
1985
as Director
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