Pascale Obolo

{{Short description|Cameroonian film director and artist.}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Pascale Obolo

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|01|7}}

| nationality = Cameroonian

| occupation = Film director
artist

}}

Pascale Obolo (born 7 January 1967) is a Cameroonian film director and artist.

A graduate of the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in Paris University of Paris VIII she is noted for her feminist films documenting women in Hip Hop in the French suburbs and African musical culture. In 2005 she released her debut film, Calypso at Dirty Jim's, a tribute to calypso and Trinidad, which won numerous awards in 2006 including the International Pan-African Film Festival of Cannes and African Diaspora Film Festival in New York. In 2008 she produced the short film La Femme invisible (The Invisible Woman).{{cite book|last=Barlet|first=Olivier|author-link=Olivier Barlet|title=Contemporary African Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2SyDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT337|date=1 August 2016|publisher=MSU Press|isbn=978-1-62895-270-4|page=337}} Her first full-length film was a documentary about Calypso Rose in 2011.

Obolo co-founded the art magazine Afrikadaa,{{cite web|url=https://nyuiaaa.org/event-items/pascale-obolo/|title=Pascale Obolo|publisher=Institute of African American Affairs|accessdate=13 November 2017}} and also participates in the African Art Book Fair (AABF).{{cite web|url=http://www.jeuneafrique.com/mag/334523/culture/parcours-pascale-obolo-reine-camerounaise-de-lart-contemporain/|title=Parcours: Pascale Obolo, reine camerounaise de l’art contemporain |website=Jeune Afrique|accessdate=13 November 2017|language=French}} She has worked with the Goethe Institute in Cameroon for several years with what she describes as an "architecture-driven film-meets-print project".{{cite web|url=https://trueafrica.co/article/pascale-obolo-the-cameroonian-artist/|title=Pascale Obolo: the Cameroonian artist promoting a new kind of cultural criticism|website=True Africa|date=20 September 2015|accessdate=13 November 2017}}