About The Directors

  • Guetty Felin

  • Guetty Felin is an award-winning, independent filmmaker, teacher and film curator. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and raised in New York, she holds an MFA from the University of Paris School of Cinema. Throughout her 18-year career, Felin has worked on …
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  • Lupita Nyong'o

  • Lupita Nyong’o has worked on the production teams of critically acclaimed films, including The Constant Gardner (2005), directed by Fernando Meirelles, and The Namesake (2006), directed by Mira Nair. In 2007, she wrote, produced, directed, and edited her first film, …
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  • Françoise Bouffault

  • Born in France, Françoise Bouffault has been employed by the United Nations in New York for most of her career. She is a writer and has also produced and directed a documentary about the Sabar dances of Senegal.

  • Dyanna Gaye

  • Dyanna Gaye was born in Paris in 1975. After majoring in film studies at the University of Paris VII in France, she won the Louis Lumière-Villa Médicis grant in 1999 for her script Une femme pour Souleyman / A Woman …
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