Burkinabese actress, film director and screenwriter.

Azata SORO is an actress, film director and screenwriter, from Burkina Faso. She is known for THOM (Tahirou T. Ouédraogo, 2015) where she starred as the main female role.

A graduate in sociology, she then went into cinema as an actress and assistant director, film director and screenwriter.
She plays in several TV series and feature narratives selected at many festivals. In 2016, she won a Writing Grant and in 2017 and Development Grant (by "Succés cinema", an institution launched by Gaston Kaboré) for her script FOLOKOTO.

She writes and directs WAFFO, L'ENFANT SERPENT (2019). That short film was selected at FESPACO 2019 (Ouaga, Burkina Faso, Special screenings), at the 2020 Films Femmes Afrique festival (Dakar, Senegal), at the Luxor 2020 festival (Egypt, official Competitionl) and won the Jury Prize at REBIAP 2019 in Benin.

Azata is also at the initiative of the movement "Even not afraid" (known as the "African Me too") launched at Fespaco 2019, where she denounced the harassment and aggression of which she was the victim by the Burkinabé director Tahirou Ouédraogo which occurred during from a shoot. The 32-year-old actress and director, Azata Soro was attacked and disfigured in 2017 by Burkinabe director Tahirou Tassere Ouedraogo during the filming of the TV series, "Throne" (Le trône), remained in competition at 2019 Fespaco.
Now a refugee in France because of her speaking out, she launched the NON = NO movement which campaigns against harassment and the liberation of women's speech.

Source :
* Festival Films Femmes Afrique 2020, Dakar
* Centre Yennenga, Dakar
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Translated from French by Thierno I. Dia, on 9 March 2020.