#Mati Diop

Research

Black Directors Helm Just 1% of Competition Films at Major Fests, According to New Research

Screen International is offering a brutal reminder of just how far the film industry has yet to go on the road toward inclusivity. The film mag and blog surveyed the main international competitions...

Awards

DGA Awards: Mati Diop, Alma Har’el, and Melina Matsoukas Nominated for First-Time Feature Film

The Directors Guild of America has announced more nominees for the 2020 DGA Awards. Not a single woman is in the running in the Feature Film category. More encouragingly, women account for three of...

News

Variety’s 2020 Directors to Watch List Includes Mati Diop, Shannon Murphy, & More

As the year winds down and awards season heats up, Variety is looking onward and celebrating rising talents. The trade just announced its 2020 Directors to Watch list, and of 10 filmmakers featured,...

Features

Quote of the Day: Mati Diop Hopes Making History with “Atlantics” Inspires Others

With “Atlantics,” a supernatural star-crossed love story told against the backdrop of the migration crisis, Mati Diop became the first black woman director to screen a feature film in...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: A Young Woman Is Haunted by Her Lover in Mati Diop’s Cannes Winner “Atlantics”

“You know you’re marrying Omar in 10 days, right?” a friend asks Ada (Mame Bineta Sane) in the trailer for Mati Diop’s “Atlantics.” “But I’m in love...

Awards

Mati Diop’s “Atlantics” Is Senegal’s Pick for International Feature Film Oscar Race

Mati Diop made history at Cannes and now she’s joining the Oscar race. A press release announced that Senegal has selected her feature debut, “Atlantics,” as the country’s...

Awards

Mati Diop to Receive Inaugural Mary Pickford Award at TIFF 2019

Mati Diop made history at Cannes this year as the first black female filmmaker to screen a feature in competition at the fest, where she took home the Grand Prix for “Atlantics,” her feature...

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