Cornélia GLÈLÈ, the filmmaker 2.0 who wants to reveal the talents of Beninese cinema to the worldCornélia GLÈLÈ, the filmmaker 2.0 who wants to reveal the talents of Beninese cinema to the world

Cornélia GLÈLÈ, the filmmaker 2.0 who wants to reveal the talents of Beninese cinema to the world. Journalist, documentary filmmaker, film blogger, voice-over artist and director of the Cotonou International Women’s Film Festival: as you can see, Cornélia GLÈLÈ wears many hats in the audiovisual world. A graduate in broadcast journalism, this Beninese woman discovered the film industry and committed herself to putting Beninese cinema in the spotlight through her blog Écran Bénin, created in 2017. Dedicated to African cinema, and Beninese cinema in particular, ecranbenin.net offers reviews, news articles and interviews with filmmakers. Today it has more than 4,000 subscribers and more than 20,000 readers. The quality of the articles on her blog earned her the “Talent Press Recognition Award” at the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa in 2018. A writer and director, she now has two short documentary films to her name. The first, “Les tam-tams du silence” (The drums of silence), was shot in 2016 in the Agonlin region of central Benin. It introduces the general public to the giant mythical drums played at funerals in that part of Benin. The second film, “Blanc-noir et heureux” (White-black and happy), shot in Cotonou in 2017, celebrates people with albinism, in contrast to the negative way they are viewed in our society. Socially committed to ... Read her full story here => https://femmedigitale.bj/p/cornelia-glele/