# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-marie-teno
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:26:37.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-marie-teno"
name: "Jean-Marie Teno"
slug: "jean-marie-teno"
description: "Jean-Marie Teno is a Cameroonian film director and filmmaker, \"one of Africa's most prolific filmmakers\". His films address censorship, human rights violations, globalization, and the effects of colonialism. Teno has made films in many different forms but favors making documentaries. In an interview when asked about his favor style of film to make he responded, \"documentary because when you do fiction, people think it's not true. When it's the documentary, they are embarrassed, embarrassed\"."
tagline: "Cameroonian film director and film editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Marie_Teno.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1954-05-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.83
  momentum:             3.140495867768595
  historical:           6.139057333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0879403/"
    handle:    "nm0879403"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Teno"
    title: "Jean-Marie Teno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Teno"
    title: "Jean-Marie Teno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Teno"
    title: "Jean-Marie Teno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Teno"
    title: "Jean-Marie Teno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Teno"
    title: "Jean-Marie Teno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Teno"
    title: "Jean-Marie Teno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3167840"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1168265"
    title: "Jean-Marie Téno"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump