Mamadou Dia

Mamadou Dia is a Senegalese director and director of photography currently based in New York, where he completed his MFA in Filmmaking at Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) in 2017. Shaped by this training and his experience working as a video-journalist for over eight years across the African continent, his stories explore the fine balance between fiction and fact, narrative and documentary. His latest short, Samedi Cinema (2016), premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. In the past year, it has been featured in over 70 festivals around the world and won a dozen awards. Nafi's father is his first feature script. On the basis of this script, he was selected to attend the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Writing Lab and was awarded a writing grant from the Hubert Bals fund.