About Jean-Paul Ngassa
Lived 1939 – 2022 (aged 82–83). Jean-Paul Ngassa was a Cameroonian film director.
Jean-Paul Ngassa (1939-2022) is a Cameroonian filmmaker.
He was born in Bana Bafang, Cameroon and graduated from the French Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC) in the 1950s.
He made the films Adventure en France (1962) and La Grande Case Bamiléké (1965) after French Cameroun's independence in 1960. He co-directed the former with Philippe Brunet.
In 1970, he directed the documentary Une nation est née, on the first ten years of Cameroon's independence.
Ngassa served as the first director of Cameroun Actualités, a semi-public film and image production company. From 1972 to 1976, he served as Secretary General of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI).
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Who was Jean-Paul Ngassa?
Cameroonian film director
When was Jean-Paul Ngassa born?
Jean-Paul Ngassa was born in 1939.
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Jean-Paul Ngassa died in 2022.
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Jean-Paul Ngassa was a film director.
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Jean-Paul Ngassa was Cameroonian.
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