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Director Idrissa Ouedraogo of Burkina Faso, a giant of African cinema, died Sunday. He was 64, according to his country’s national filmmakers guild. The cause of death was not revealed. The prolific Ouedraogo was best known for Tilai, a powerful drama about family honor that won the Cannes Jury Prize in…

Trevor Noah told viewers he was planning to open Thursday’s The Daily Show talking about how South Korea’s president credited President Donald Trump’s incendiary rhetoric with getting North Korea to the negotiating table. “I was going to be, like, ‘Wow, Donald Trump, maybe you did something right’,” Noah…

President Donald Trump's recent tweeting has added to the growing impression he is dangerously unfit for the job, Seth Meyers told Late Night viewers on Thursday. It’s an impression Trump tried to counter on Tuesday by televising his bipartisan immigration negotiations, during which he got asked his position on DACA…

The Film Foundation, the movie-restoration organization founded and chaired by Martin Scorsese, has partnered with the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers (FEPACI) and UNESCO in a project to locate, restore and preserve films made on the African continent. Dubbed the African Film Heritage Project, the group will…

French pay TV giant Canal Plus has launched four new sports channels in Africa. The move underlines the extent to which parent company Vivendi’s chairman Vincent Bollore sees Africa as one of the areas of potential future growth for the company, along with southern Europe. Canal Plus Sport will broadcast the premier…

Africa, the feature about paleo-archaeologist Richard Leaky’s battle with ivory poachers in Kenya that was to be directed by Angelina Jolie and star her husband Brad Pitt, is said to be on shaky ground. The feature was being produced through David Ellison's Skydance Productions from a script by Oscar winner Eric…

Angelina Jolie has found her next movie to direct. The actress and now busy helmer has signed on to for Africa, an epic tale for David Ellison’s Skydance Productions. Written by Oscar winner Eric Roth, the pic is based on paleo-archaeologist Richard Leakey’s late-’80s battle with ivory poachers in Kenya that…

As a commemoration period begins today on the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, here's an inspiring story about a country whose film industry we don't often hear about. U.S. filmmaker Leah Warshawski has helped to create a free online resource to streamline producing films in Rwanda. The outreach project…