INFORMATION SESSIONS: Wednesday, September 28 and Wednesday, October 5, 11.30am to 12.30pm

433 Paterson hallInstructor: Aboubakar Sanogo

Prof. Blair Rutherford, Chair of Institute of African Studies

Prof. Aboubakar Sanogo, Film Studies and African Studies

The course is entitled African Cinema on Location and will consist in bringing to Burkina Faso, the home of African cinema, Carleton University students to study the important aspects of African cinema in situ. The course will be structured in such a way as to take the fullest possible advantage of the location, thus being a course that could only be taken there.

Consequently, the course will have a dual focus; the study of African Cinema in general and a case study of the cinema of Burkina Faso as Ouagadougou hosts both the institutions of African and Burkinabe cinema. This dual focus will in turn rest on three legs, that is, institutions, people and places.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

http://www.fespaco-bf.net/

The African Cinematheque

FEPACI

Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers

DCN http://www.culture.gov.bf/Site_Ministere/textes/ministere/ministere_sc_dcn.htm

ISIS Imagine

http://www.institutimagine.com/accueil.php http://www.youtube.com/user/IMAGINEINSTITUTE National Television of Burkina Faso

http://www.tnb.bf/

http://www.france24.com/en/20080221-gaston-kabore-african-maestro-cinema

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idrissa_Ouedraogo

http://www.fanta-nacro.com/

http://www.filmsdudromadaire.com/html/plan.htm

http://www.filmsdudromadaire.com/html/plan.htm

Movie Theaters

Video parlors

Market

Informal economy of cinema

Travel Accommodation Food (breakfast and lunch) at Imagine

Institute Coursepack Classroom rental Guest Speakers Ground transportation

Passport Burkina Faso Visa Vaccinations Travel Insurance

Seek cheaper airfaire (Maximum 2000CAD)

Perhaps buy two tickets (leaving Ottawa or Montreal)

Transit through Europe (Paris, London)

Find a second ticket to and from Ouagadougou

From Canada to Europe: Air Canada, Air France (but try others if you get good deals), Royal Air Maroc

From Europe to Burkina From Paris: Air Burkina, Air France, Royal Air

Maroc From London: Royal Air Maroc Other airlines flying into Burkina: Ethiopian

Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Le Point, etc.

Some interested participants have tips on reducing airfare considerably.

Two types of rooms:

Individual Rooms (20): private bathroom, Split air conditioner, ceiling fan, TV set

Cost per person: Around 45CAD a day

Shared rooms (2 or 3 people per room): Same amenities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_aHCl9Ovjk

Breakfast: Tea or coffee+ Milk+1loaf of French bread+Butter+Jam Fruit juice+ yoghurt+seasonal fruit + (5CAD aday)

Catered Lunch (10CAD a day)

All day coffee and tea (2.65 CAD a day)

Evening meals are not included

Will be made here at Carleton before we leave- Readings on African and Burkina Faso cinema

Room with a video projector

Roughly 271 CAD per student

2 hours- 53CAD (25000 cfa)

4 hours-85 CAD (40.000)

6 hours-126 CAD (60.000)

Roughly 300 CAD per student

Minibus rental (15 people): 105 CAD a day

Gas price 1.45 CAD

Roughly 221 CAD per student

Airfare+Accommodation+Food+Course Pack+Classroom Rental+ Guest Speakers+Ground Transportation

Between 3500CAD and 4000CAD (dependent mostly on airfare)

http://www.burkinafaso.ca/

Consular Requirements: A 90 day visa ($110-$145)

Travel Clinic at U. of Ottawa Health Clinic, 100 Marie Curie Street (300), University of Ottawa, t.613-564-3950 :http://www.uottawa.ca/health/health-services/Prepare.html#TravelMedisys Ottawa Travel Clinic, 1545 Carling Ave, Suite 21, t. (613) 521-8313 : http://www.ottawa-travel-clinic.com/index.htmRiverside Travel Medicine Clinic, 1919 Riverside Drive, Suite 411, Riverside Hospital, t. 613-733-5553 : http://www.web.net/~petert/

a) Submit a max. one-page explanation of why you want to take the course and any past experience (academic or practical) with Africa and/or film studies: deadline October 31;

b) Selection completed by November 15;

c) Down payment of $1,000 due on January 1

Potential for fundraising with co-participants to cut costs. Some participants already have experience doing this.

Funding could be sought with one’s MPs, through renting a bar, etc.

http://www.burkinafaso.ca/ Yellow Fever Vaccine

Malaria Treatment

http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/burkinafaso/contact-contactez.aspx?view=d

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6U1cWX6doI&feature=related

Discovery of a new country/Expanding horizons

Meeting the major actors of a cinematic tradition

Having a class on location

Please contact:

Professor Aboubakar Sanogo in St.Patrick’s 432

Phone (613) 520-2600 ext 2346Email: aboubakar_sanogo@carleton.ca

Professor Blair Rutherford