Friday, Nov. 15, 2019

Mati Diop has always lived in Paris but as a French-Senegalese woman whose family is from Dakar, she’s long been acutely conscious of another, unlived existence for herself in Africa. And it’s there that her life as a filmmaker has largely resided.

Diop spent nine months in Senegal making...

Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019

Director Mati Diop has been named the inaugural recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Mary Pickford Award supported by MGM. The honor, to be presented at the TIFF Tribute Gala on Monday, September 9, is named in honour of Toronto native Mary Pickford and recognizes an emerging...

Saturday, May. 25, 2019

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's social satire "Parasite," about a poor family of hustlers who find jobs with a wealthy family, won the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme d'Or, on Saturday.

The win for "Parasite" marks the first Korean film to ever win the Palme. In the...

Friday, May. 17, 2019

Mati Diop was initially disappointed when she, by reading a news article, discovered that she was the first black female filmmaker in the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious competition in its 72-year history.

"I hadn't realized myself. I didn't know," the 36-year-old French-Senegalese...

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