Department of French and Italian

Professor Vincent Bouchard, along with Professor Terri Francis, director of IU’s Black Film Center/Archive, is organizing a workshop to take place Sept. 5-6 at IUB entitled P.S. Vieyra: Pioneer of African Cinemas, Filmmaker, Producer and Historian. Scholars from the US, Canada, France, and Senegal will discuss the legacy of Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (1925-1987), who was born in Benin and spent most of his adult life in Senegal. Director of over 30 documentaries, Vieyra was also a founding member of the Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes, director of the national cinema news service of Senegal under president Léopold Sédar Senghor and production manager for Ousmane Sembène. For more information about the workshop, please contact vbouchar@indiana.edu.  (program details).