List of Popular Beninese Film Directors

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra was a BenineseSenegalese film director and historian. As he lived in Senegal after the age of 10, he is more associated with that nation. In 1955 in Paris he shot the first Francophone African film, Afrique sur Seine. His other important achievements for film in Africa include founding the Fdration panafricaine des cinastes in 1969. In 1961 he married poet Myriam Warner of Guadeloupe. One of his sisters is Justine Vieyra, born in Parakou.....
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