Filmmaking traditional culture in BURKINA FASO 
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Learning how to make traditional soap
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My cameraman and UNGVT apiculturist getting ready to film bees in action… they brought back awesome footage and delightful honey
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Sooo grateful for the women mobilization who came to show me how proud they are to keep traditional, artisanal, burkinabe everything going. viva AFRICA! so much to learn from food communities here!
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I am truly amazed with the traditional way of farming, weaving, cooking, living here in BURKINA FASO… so much to learn… how to go back to the roots of life.
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The greatest of the greatest artists, MR POUBELLE (Mr Garbage) who uses recycled materials to make sculptures, masks and even a whole band with instruments made of pots, pans, buckets… huge thanks to our local film crew, we can say this a true Burkinabe co-production .
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Here in Koubri, I meet and interviewed Ima Hado, who personifies the convergence of all cool things: arts & culture, agro-ecology, eco-tourism. and on top of everything he invents and makes new instruments . here is his latest creation: some sort of African cello…
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One more day interviewing resistance artists… here my film crew smiles as we wrap up with musician Onasis Wendker.
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Interviewed Bouda Blandine, a woman who is changing the public’s perception of socially excluded women by enabling them to pull themselves out of poverty, to improve their health and to exert a greater influence on family decisions—such as whether or not to force their young daughters to marry. Blandine supports women who produce dolo, a traditional beer-like beverage, because they are the least respected due to their profession. These dolo producers are often the subjects of malicious gossip because of their association with alcohol and male strangers.
Blandine enables the dolo makers to become successful and respected business women by increasing access to literacy courses and by disseminating cost-saving methods of dolo production!
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Mission accomplished with my SLOW FOOD family in BURKINA FASO, now in TOGO to film the agroecologists here too
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