Cameroon
Born in 1940 in Douala, Cameroon, Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa is a film director and writer. He produced Cameroon's first full-length feature film, Muna Moto, in 1974. Dikongué-Pipa's films deal with the relationships between elements of traditional Cameroonian culture and the wider world. He became a filmmaker through theater, studied at the Cinema Conservatory in Paris. After three short films (1965-1966), he directed feature films, thus bringing Cameroon cinema to international audiences. An author, playwriter and theater producer, Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa directed and acted in about thirty plays during his life-long career. Biography Source
Un simple
(1965)
Les Cornes
(1966)
Rendez-moi mon père
(1966)
Muna Moto
(1974)
Le Prix de la liberté
(1978)
Kpa Kum
(1980)
Music and Music: Super Concert
(1981)
Histoires drôles, drôles de gens
(1983)
Badyaga
(1987)