Solo Randrasana passed away

Ignace Solo Randrasana, dean of the Madagascan filmmakers, passed away the 26th august 2011. He was doing a lot for the promotion of cinema in Madagascar.
He founded “l’Institut Supérieur de Cinématographie de l’Océan Indien” which from this academic year has to prepare filmmakers. He won in 1973 an Award at the Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouadadougou (Fespaco) in Burkina Faso with his fiction Mad 47. The movie is about the violence made by french army against the local populations where there where claming indipendance from France in 1947.
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