Idrissa Ouedraogo

Idrissa Ouédraogo was born in Banfora Upper Volta now Burkina Faso in 1954 He grew up in the town of Ouahigouya in the northern region of his homeland and in 1976 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree To ensure a better life his farmer parents sent him to Ouagadougou for further education where he attended the African Institute for Cinema Studies Institut Africain dEtudes Cinématographiques completing his studies in 1981 with a masters After studying in Kiev in the USSR he moved to Paris where he graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques IDHEC in 1985 with a DEA from the Sorbonne On graduating from IAFEC in 1981 Ouédraogo set up his own independent film company The Future of Films which became Les Films de la Plaine In 1981 before moving to Kiev he worked for the Burkina Faso Directorate of Cinema Production Direction de la Production Cinématographique du Burkina Faso where he directed several short films