Safi faye biography samples

The list of classic African directors known around the world is limited, but prominent men like Ousmane Sembène, Abderrahmane Sissako, Souleymane Cissé, and Djibril Diop Mambéty dominate the conversation.

Safi Faye, considered the best known African female director of the 80’s and 90’s, is rarely celebrated alongside those names.

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Drawing from personal experience, it takes significant effort and proactivity to simply know about any female-made African films under the “classic” umbrella in that era.

Senegalese director Safi Faye is a cinematic pioneer.

With her 1975 feature debut Kaddu Beykat, she became the first black African woman from Sub-Saharan Africa to make a commercially distributed film. She followed that up with several short films—until 1996, when she made her second and final feature film Mossane.

With only two feature films to her name, Faye’s low output followed a general trend among African female directors of that time (for example, Kenyan filmmaker Anne Mu