Mati Diop [1] es una actriz y directora franco-senegalesa. Fue la primera cineasta africana que disputó la Palma de Oro en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Cannes del 2019 con su película Atlantics que finalmente recibió el Gran Premio del Jurado. Wikipedia
“My family history is made of migration; it’s something that’s part of my own complexity.”
Fuente: On her family background that includes an immigrant parent in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/09/atlantics-director-mati-diop-as-a-mixed-race-girl-theres-always-a-visible-and-invisible-side-of-you in The Guardian (2019 Nov 9)
Fuente: On her mixed race ancestry in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/09/atlantics-director-mati-diop-as-a-mixed-race-girl-theres-always-a-visible-and-invisible-side-of-you in The Guardian (2019 Nov 9)
“I started to watch the ocean. I was not looking at it like I used to; it became like a grave.”
Fuente: On travelling to Senegal in 2008 to make a film in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/09/atlantics-director-mati-diop-as-a-mixed-race-girl-theres-always-a-visible-and-invisible-side-of-you in The Guardian (2019 Nov 9)
