François L. Woukoache is a filmmaker born in Cameroon, author of more than twenty films (fiction and documentaries), a series of children's stories and several television shows. After higher scientific studies in France, he studied cinema in Belgium at INSAS. In 1991, he directed his first film Melina, a documentary filmed in Cameroon in 1994, he directed Asientos, a documentary on the memory of the slave trade. After a short film Smoke in the eyes shot in Brussels in 1997, he directed his first feature film Fragments de vie in 1998 in Cameroon. The same year, he shot We no longer died in Rwanda on the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. Committed filmmaker, François L. Woukoache moved to Rwanda at the end of the 1990s. He created a local NGO KEMIT, and since then has been carrying out a work of reflection and memory through: 1) the implementation of actions of training in cinema at the National University of Rwanda (where he supervised the making of the country's first two short fiction films in 1999); 2) the making of films (Testimony of Astérie survivor of the genocide; Humura; Icyizere, hope, etc.), 3) the creation of an audiovisual documentary fund on the memory of the genocide which is used for awareness-raising work on reconciliation and human rights in communities across the country. Between 2003 and 2005, the Belgian-Cameroonian director conceived and coordinated the project Igicucu n'Urumuri (Shadow and Light ") an introduction to cinema in schools and colleges in Rwanda. François L. Woukoache is also the author of the short film The Lady of the 4th Floor and of the Kongossa medium-length film, shot in Cameroon in 2009. Since 2013, he has been coordinating the Faces of life project, which trains Rwandan women from disadvantaged backgrounds to use the visual arts as a means of critical expression and social transformation François L. Woukoache has received the following awards: FESPACO - Ouagadougou (1997): Prize for best documentary film, Festival Cinema Africano in Milan (March 1996): Premio Agip (Best short film) and CMD Prize - Ecrans d'Afrique (critics' prize), Amiens International Film Festival (November 1995): ACCT Prize and Special Mention from the documentary jury, Zanzibar International Films Festival (2001): Prize for best editing and Special Mention ecial of the Jury, North-South Television Meetings in Geneva (May 1996): Special Mention of the jury, Black Film & Video Network - Toronto (August 1996): Award of recognition, Kodak-Jane Gueronnet Prize at the 12th Bilan du film ethnographique de Paris (March 1993).