Pascale Obolo (born 7 January 1967) is a Cameroonian film director and artist. A graduate of the

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in Paris

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she is noted for her feminist films documenting women in Hip Hop in the French suburbs and African musical culture. In 2005 she released her debut film, '' Calypso at Dirty Jim's'', a tribute to calypso and Trinidad, which won numerous awards in 2006 including the International Pan-African Film Festival of Cannes and

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in New York. In 2008 she produced the short film ''La Femme invisible'' (''The Invisible Woman''). Her first full-length film was a documentary about

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in 2011. Obolo co-founded the art magazine ''Afrikadaa'', and also participates in the African Art Book Fair (AABF). She has worked with the

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in Cameroon for several years with what she describes as an "architecture-driven film-meets-print project".

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21st-century Cameroonian artists Cameroonian film directors Cameroonian women film directors 1960 births Living people Cameroonian expatriates in France {{Cameroon-bio-stub