Alice Diop
ActivitiesDirector, Screenwriter, Director of photography, Voice-over
SecteurCinéma
Represented byVMA
AgentIvan De Labbey
Biography
A writer and director, Alice Diop trained in documentary at the Fémis after studying humanities. She won the César for Best Short Film for Vers la tendresse in 2017. The same year, her feature documentary La Permanence won the top award in the French Competition section at the Cinéma du réel festival. Her latest film We won awards for Best Documentary Film and Best Film in the Encounters strand at the Berlinale in 2021. She then launched into fiction with Saint-Omer, a feature film soon to be released, and directed an episode of the Arte series 24H, about violence against women.
Filmography(8)
Comment
As part of the Unifrance Critic's Lab 2022
A portrait of Alice Diop by Aramide Tinubu, American journalist.
"Cinema is both an exploration and a presentation. In the beginning, there were only documentaries or "actualities." At the birth of cinema in the late 19th century, filmmakers like the Lumiere Brothers and Alice Guy-Blaché used the moving picture to showcase "actual events" to audiences. The narrative film would come sometime later, as would the documentary in the form we recognize today. French-Senegalese filmmaker Alice Diop has spent her career turning her lens toward those just outside what is celebrated in French cinema. She has focused on the voices of the underrepresented, cementing their places in cinema history and forcing society to pay attention to those they may have long forgotten, even when she's had to break the fourth wall to do so. After all, no matter what we tell ourselves, filmmaking can never truly be objective, even when it comes to non-fiction.
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