Katy Léna N'diaye

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Katy Léna N'diaye
Born1968
Dakar, Senegal
NationalitySenegalese-French
CitizenshipNew York City
Occupations
  • journalist
  • documentary filmmaker
  • screen writer
  • director
  • producer
  • actor
Known forTraces, empreintes de femmes (Traces, Women's Imprints, 2003), En attendant les hommes (Waiting for Men, 2007)

Katy Léna N'diaye (born 1968) is a Senegalese-French journalist and documentary filmmaker, best known for her documentaries about women muralists in Africa.[1][2][3][4][5]

Life[edit]

Born in Dakar, Senegal, N'diaye grew up in Paris, France and later moved to Brussels, Belgium. She studied modern literature in Paris, and undertook further study in broadcast journalism at the Institut des hautes études des communications sociales (IHECS, École de journalisme de Bruxelles) at Brussels. She has worked as a journalist for TV5 Monde, hosting a TV magazine Reflets Sud, and for RTBF, and lives in Brussels.[1][6][7]

In 2003 N'diaye directed her first documentary Traces on mural painting by Kassena women in Burkina Faso.[2][8] In the documentary, three old women explain the content of the murals covering the reddish-clay huts to Anetina, a young unmarried woman.[4] Awaiting for Men documented three older women talking as they painted the town wall in Oualata, an oasis town on the edge of the Sahara Desert in southeast Mauritania.[9]

Filmography[edit]

Year Film Genre Role Duration
(min)
2003 Traces, empreintes de femmes
(Traces, Women's Imprints)[10]		 Documentary Director, screenwriter 55 m.
2007 En attendant les hommes
(Waiting for Men)[11]		 Documentary Director, screenwriter 56 m.
2018 Amin
by Philippe Faucon[12]		 Fiction feature Actor 91 m.
2019 On a le temps pour nous
(Time is on our side)[13]		 Documentary Director, screenwriter, co-producer 67 m.
2022 L'argent, la liberté, une histoire du franc CFA
(Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc)[14]		 Documentary Director, producer 101 m.
2022 Maayo Wonaa Keerol
(Le fleuve n'est pas une frontière)[15]
by Alassane Diago		 Documentary Producer 105 m.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Katy Lena Ndiaye Film director, Producer, Journalist". africine.org. Fédération africaine de la critique cinématographique (FACC). Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b Janis L. Pallister; Ruth A. Hottell (2005). French-speaking Women Documentarians: A Guide. Peter Lang. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-8204-7614-8.
  3. ^ Olivier Barlet (2012). Les cinémas d'Afrique des années 2000. Perspectives critiques (in French). L'Harmattan. pp. 99, 128, 201–202, 300, 310, 313, 327, 332. ISBN 9782296557604. OCLC 1126350786.
  4. ^ a b Olivier Barlet (2016). Contemporary African Cinema. MSU Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-62895-270-4.
  5. ^ "Katy Lèna N'diaye". African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF, New York). Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  6. ^ Mansouri, Hassouna (11 April 2014). "Katy Lena Ndiaye's walls of women, women's words: Interview by Hassouna Mansouri and analysis by Mohamadou Mahmoun Faye". Translated by Ellerson, Beti. Retrieved 28 September 2023. Katy Lena Ndiaye came to cinema gradually. After studying modern literature in Paris, she studied broadcast journalism. She finds in her vocation a strong desire to talk about Africa. While working for television, she quietly continues her cinematic dream. Because the way that Africa is shown on television, she uses her camera as a weapon to work to correct this image.
  7. ^ Mansouri, Hassouna (6 December 2008). "La vocation du documentaire: Entretien avec Katy Lena Ndiaye]". africine.org (in French). Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  8. ^ Mitchell, Elvis (7 April 2004). "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; From Village Huts to the Cosmos: Filmmakers on Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 September 2023. The essaylike Traces explores the Burkina Faso art of mural painting and sculpture that adorn the beautiful reddish-clay huts, built and designed by women. Ms. Ndiaye begins her story with the cleareyed young Anetina. Her grandmothers detail the entangled family history and the equally complicated evolution of the exterior and interior art of the huts.
  9. ^ Faye, Modou Mamoune (9 October 2007). "Dans l'intimité des femmes de Oualata… En attendant les hommes, de Katy Léna NDIAYE (Sénégal)". africine.org (in French). Retrieved 29 September 2023. Katy Léna Ndiaye est plus connue comme présentatrice du magazine "Reflet Sud" sur la chaîne francophone TV5 Monde et sur la télévision publique belge RTBF. Cette journaliste sénégalaise, qui vit et travaille à Bruxelles, est aussi une réalisatrice de talent.
  10. ^ Traces, empreintes de femmes at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  11. ^ Waiting for Men at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  12. ^ Amin at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  13. ^ On a le temps pour nous at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  14. ^ L'argent, la liberté, une histoire du franc CFA at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  15. ^ Maayo Wonaa Keerol (Le fleuve n'est pas une frontière) at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata

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