Arzouma Kompaore

About

Arzouma is an award-winning Multimedia production specialist, a filmmaker and former TV Executive Producer with the Voice of America's Africa Division's French to Africa service. He has covered events like the Oscars or the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), a global event for innovation in business and technology in Las Vegas, in French and English. He supervises and produces captivating programming and dabbles as a host of two technology TV segments in French. He has interviewed celebrities and newsmakers like Martin Scorsese. Arzouma’ s projects include award-winning documentary films like “Braiding the dream” and “Transracial Adoption: When the color is not enough.” His most recent work takes us closer to high achievers Africans in America through the viral documentary "The African Millionaires in America" with roughly, over 2000 hours of viewing time on social media.A Fulbright Scholar, Arzouma is originally from Burkina-Faso and his carrier in the media industry started at the Burkina Faso National Film School (ISIS) as director of photography.His film debut was writing and directing HAWA, his MFA thesis film at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he graduated in film and animation.