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Jean-Pierre Bekolo is a filmmaker whose socially engaged practice has spanned more than three decades, exploring a wide range of cinematic genres to challenge stereotypes about Africa and African cinema. A pioneer of Afrofuturism, he works across science fiction, playful fables, thrillers, and both fictional and documentary filmmaking. His films include Quartier Mozart (1992), which received awards at the Cannes, Locarno, and Montreal film festivals; Aristotle's Plot(1995); The President (2013); Naked Reality (2016); and Les Saignantes (2005), which was selected by MoMA as one of the 70 greatest science fiction films.
Pascale Obolo is a filmmaker, researcher, independent curator, activist, and editor-in-chief of the art journal AFRIKADAA. Her work focuses on transmission, the sharing of knowledge and experience, and explores memory, identity, exile, and invisibility. Rejecting conventional genre classifications, she creates what she describes as "filmic objects," including Calypso Rose: The Lioness of the Jungle, which received the Silver Yennenga Award at FESPACO in 2013. She also directs the African Art Book Fair (AABF), an independent publishing fair dedicated to supporting distinctive and high-quality publishing practices across Africa.
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