Mati Diop
Mati Diop (born June 22, 1982 in Paris ) is a French director , screenwriter , camerawoman and actress.
Life
Born in Paris in 1982, Mati Diop comes from the famous Senegalese Diop family. Her father Wasis Diop is a musician and songwriter who is known for mixing traditional Senegalese folk music with modern pop music and jazz. She is also the niece of the filmmaker and actor Djibril Diop Mambéty . Diop's French mother is a photographer and art director.
Diop worked as an actress, a. a. for Claire Denis , Antonio Campos and Matias Piñero. She has also made short films, including the documentary A Thousand Suns , which is about the main character of one of her uncle's most famous films, Touki Bouki . In 2009 she made the short film Atlantiques .
The feature film based on it, Atlantique , for which she directed and wrote the screenplay, she presented at the Cannes International Film Festival , where it competed for the Palme d' Or. Diop was the first black female director to compete in Cannes. In November 2019, she was included in the 10 Directors to Watch by the industry journal Variety . Atlantique was submitted by Senegal as an entry for the Academy Awards 2020 in the category Best International Film and was shortlisted in this category by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in mid-December 2019 .
At the end of June 2020, Diop became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .
Filmography (selection)
- 2008: 35 Rum (as an actress)
- 2009: Atlantiques (short film, director, screenplay and camera)
- 2011: Sleepwalkers (also camera)
- 2011: Snow Canon (short film, director and screenplay)
- 2012: Simon Killer (as an actress)
- 2013: Mille soleils (documentary, director and camera)
- 2014: L for Leisure L (as actress)
- 2014: Fort Buchanan (as an actress)
- 2016: Hermia & Helena (as actress)
- 2019: Atlantique (Director and Screenplay)
Awards (selection)
- 2019: Nomination for the best directorial debut ( Atlantique )
- 2020: Nomination for Best International Film (Atlantique)
- 2020: Nomination for Best Director (Atlantique)
- 2020: nomination for young directors (Atlantique)
- 2020: Nomination for Best Screenplay Debut (Atlantique)
Directors Guild of America Award
- 2020: Nomination for the best directorial debut (Atlantique)
- 2019 : Nomination as European Discovery for the Prix FIPRESCI (Atlantique)
Cannes International Film Festival
- 2019 : Nomination for the Golden Palm (Atlantique)
- 2019: Awarded the Grand Jury Prize (Atlantique)
- 2019: Awarded the Sutherland Award in the First Feature Competition (Atlantique)
Venice International Film Festival
- 2011 : Nomination for the Queer Lion (Snow Canon)
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- 2019: Award as best first work (Atlantique)
Palm Springs International Film Festival
- 2020: Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for the FIPRESCI Prize (Atlantique)
- 2020: Nomination for Best Debut Film (Atlantique)
Rotterdam International Film Festival
- 2010: Received the Tiger Award for Short Film (Atlantiques)
- 2012: Received the Tiger Award for Short Film (Big in Vietnam)
Web links
- Mati Diop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mille soleils / A Thousand Sun by Mati Diop. In: festivalregard.com. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Rachel Aroesti: Atlantics director Mati Diop: 'As a mixed-race girl, there's a visible and invisible side of you'. In: theguardian.com. Guardian News & Media Limited, November 9, 2019, accessed December 25, 2019 .
- ^ A b Peter Debruge: Variety Names 10 Directors to Watch for 2020. In: Variety, November 19, 2019.
- ↑ Mark Olsen: Mati Diop on her story of ghosts and lost love in 'Atlantics,' Senegal's Oscar entry. In: Los Angeles Times. November 20, 2019. Retrieved December 25, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Cannes 2019: These three young directors bring politics to the film festival. In: HAZ.de, May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Erik Anderson: 2020 Oscar Predictions: The Shortlists. In: awardswatch.com, December 15, 2019.
- ^ Academy Invites 819 To Membership. In: oscars.org, June 30, 2020.
- ↑ Atlantiques. In: viennale.at. Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, accessed December 25, 2019 .
- ^ Wilson Morales: 20th Annual Black Reel Awards - Nominees Announced. In: blackfilm.com, December 11, 2019.
- ↑ Zack Sharf: Directors Guild of America 2020 Nominees Include Taika Waititi, Bong Joon-ho, and More. In: indiewire.com, January 7, 2020.
- ↑ European Film Awards 2019: Six debut films nominated for the European Film Awards. In: cineuropa.org, October 8, 2019.
- ↑ Jenny Jecke: Goldene Palme: Cannes Film Festival: These are the winners of the 2019 festival. In: moviepilot.de, May 25, 2019.
- ↑ Ryan Lattanzio: Foreign Oscar Submissions 'Monos' and 'Atlantics' Top BFI London Film Festival Winners. In: indiewire.com, October 12, 2019.
- ↑ Pete Hammond: Palm Springs Film Festival Sets Lineup; 'An Almost Ordinary Summer' & 'Military Wives' Are Opening- And Closing-Night Movies. In: deadline.com, December 10, 2019.
- ↑ Les nominations 2020. In: academiedeslumieres.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (PDF; 256 KB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diop, Mati |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film director, screenwriter and camerawoman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |