Rotterdam Winner Cyrielle Raingou on Cameroon Documentary ‘Le Spectre de Boko Haram’: ‘My Mission Isn’t Over’

It has been a long road for Cameroon’s Cyrielle Raingou, the director of documentary “Le Spectre de Boko Haram,” about children growing up surrounded by terrorist organization Boko Haram, winner of the Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam’s Tiger Award. “Life can be crazy, no?,” she tells Variety after her win. Initially following a different protagonist, Raingou decided to scrap the entire project in order to, she says, tell the story she wanted to tell. “It was very, very hard. I dedicated three years of my life to that and spent all my development funds. But it just wasn’t right! I was… Read Full Article