A THREE-DAY conference on African cinema will be held at the University of Illinois in the US from November 8 to 10, 2007.

There will be over 30 academic presentations with a large number of films screenings.

A review of the last Burkinabe festival of FESCAPO’s presentations is expected to be done in a more academic setting than in the fanfare or euphoric that have characterized previous meetings.

Among the participants who will make presentations is Socrate Safo, from Ghana.

Socrate is the CEO of Movie Africa Productions, perhaps the only person left in the video feature film industry now which is commercially productive.

Incidentally, Movie Africa is twenty years old this year.

His presentation which will be heralded by a buffet dinner on the evening of November 9, will be centred on two of his films, Sub City, a propaganda feature on HIV/AIDS, and the Video Revolution in Ghana, a straight documentary on the rise and growth of the video film culture in Ghana.

The keynote lecture of the conference is on the Ghanaian video. It is entitled the African popular cinema. Pentecostalism and the "Powers of Darkness." Discovers on the Ghanaian film and is expected from a professor from VU University in Amsterdam, Prof Meyer.

Socrate Safo is expected to give a number of public lectures in eleven colleges and universities.