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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9859

12 March 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/acp/culture
FESPACO's top African film prize goes to “Teza”, an Ethiopian film co-financed by EU

Brussels, 11/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - “Teza”, the film by the Ethiopian film maker, Haile Gerima, which received the De Yennonga “etalon d'or”, the top African film prize during the 21st pan-African Cinema and Television Festival (FESPACO), was co-financed with €56,000 from the European Development Fund (EDF), Louis Michel, European Development Commissioner, was pleased to state in a press release of 11 March.

The funding was released as part of a programme to promote the...

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