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Fanta Régina Nacro
Fanta Régina Nacro is an artist who explores the themes of African cinema while tackling issues surrounding illness such as AIDS and education for the Girl child. She represents the "New African Wave". Nacro's films tend to question the traditions of Burkina Faso, while looking at the relationship between tradition and modernity in today's world.

Early Life
Fanta Régina Nacro was born in 1962 in Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso.

Career
Nacro studied at INAFEC which lead to a collaboration with her colleagues that turned into her first film production. She is popularly known for producing short films around Europe, Africa and North America. Her first feature film is called "The Night of Truth". Nacro is known to be the first woman in Burkina Faso, to direct a feature film. She is among the founding members of the Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et producteurs (The African Guild of Directors and Producers). She uses cinema as a venture to spread strong messages and help fight violence against women. Nacro said in an interview "Since the beginning of my career in 1993, there is always an educational dimension in my productions because I strongly believe in the power of the image in terms of persuasion, transmission of messages, convictions, opinions".

Awards
She has won over twenty international award.