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L’ARDC
The Association of Documentary Filmmakers of Cameroon (ARDC) is a non-profit association created in 2014 in Yaoundé. It is the initiative of a group of people made up of former Cameroonian students at the Master’s degree in documentary filmmaking in Saint Louis, Senegal, former members of AFRICADOC-Cameroon, documentary film professionals and amateurs. The ARDC was born in order to: show African realities that are often unknown, to break the stereotypes that still exist on the African man and on Africa -territory, to popularize a film genre that is not very produced, to constitute a memory for our country and for our continent by encouraging the realization of documentary films As activities, the ARDC organizes every year since 2014. Documentary writing residencies where, for one or two weeks, budding authors develop long or short film projects, seminars: moments of exchange around a notion of documentary cinema with participants in order to provide them with clarifications, film clubs: screenings – debates around documentary films from here and elsewhere.
Introduction to documentary film workshop for children “vacances en Doc”: which is intended to be an extension of children’s education during the holidays, a time of rest. On the menu: screenings of documentary films for children, exchanges around the film, practical workshop on documentary film shooting. At the end of the workshop, parchments are given to the child participants: To set up a South-South co-production platform to enable Cameroonian authors to see their films produced, to organise for the first time a documentary film-making workshop to enable authors who took part in the previous residencies to make their films.
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The Association of Cameroonian Documentary Filmmakers, abbreviated ARDC, is a non-profit association created in 2014 in Yaoundé. Contact us…