Patricia Kwende: The only Cameroonian selected at Cannes 2015

The young Director, Patricia Kwende was the only selected Cameroonian to participate in the just ended 68th annual Cannes film festival held in France.

She obtained a Bachelor in France where she studied marketing and communication and she was the only Cameroonian who attended the Cannes Film Festival from May 13 to May 24, 2015.

"Indeed, I am the only Cameroonian selected for the Cannes festival 2015. I was also the only Cameroonian filmmaker at Cannes 2014 festival competing in the short film category," she confirmed.

Corroborating sources indicated that she was fascinated by the stories told her by her grandmother and the stories she could read and learn during the studies.

His sister Armande Noubissié said she is the second child of a family of six children. She was influenced greatly by Régine Tchouaffi, her mom.

After training in writing in 2006, she wrote a feature script entitled Massa Cottam with which she was a finalist in the international competition, Writes Movies in the USA.

This was a development that pushed her to participate in the "Plumes et Pelliculle" workshop of the Dreamago Association in Switzerland. She later emerged the winner of the internal contest of the association "Sequences7" with a short film project entitled "Il revient de loin".

In 2011, after winning at duWorkshop Dessins an international animation festival of screenwriters, she signed up for the start of production of a short animated film scenario. The year 2013 was considered her year of glory.

Patricia Kwende directed her first short film, Dans le doute which was nominated at the Short Film Corner at Cannes 2014. The young filmmaker did not stop after that.

With the guidance of producer Adou Khan, she produced the film ‘L’appel de l’Afrique’, a short film of 19 minutes that highlights the cultural blend and the African values.

Screened several times in Douala and Yaoundé, the film was set in a French suburb and created based on reality and fiction. It highlights the story of Michael Kamuanga, a young African man of about 30 who lived in Europe for several years.

His conscience disturbed him a lot because he had broken ties his family and was too ashamed to return home. Because the dead are not dead, as said in Africa, the young was haunted by the spirit of his dead mother, who requested him to come rescue her sister in the village.

Patricia Kwende who has lived in France for seven years is one of the rising stars in the Cameroonian cinema and at 36; the author cum film maker expresses her passion in what she does.

Unlike many young people who loathe African cultural values, Patricia Kwende who did part of her studies (primary) in Cameroon, including Bonamoussadi public school decided to value and portray her cultural values worldwide.