First-time feature director Mati Diop made headlines in May (including on this very website) for making history. When her film Atlantics won the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix award (“effectively second prize,” says A.O. Scott), she became the first black woman ever to win at the festival in its 72-year history. In fact, Atlantics was the first film by a black woman to screen in competition ever at the festival.
AtlanticsFor Diop, it was a mixed blessing. While she was proud of the honor, she told Jezebel in October, while in New York to promote her film, “Cannes is not a place where you have long and involved conversations. It really becomes about what you represent more than your film and how it was written, how it was directed. I kind of accept that very reductive approach to me.”
JEZEBEL: What was your immediate reaction to winning at Cannes, and now that some time is passed, what do you think of it today?When I found out that the film was in competition, I was still editing it. The first thing I thought about was that I was shocked and amazed with a first feature as a filmmaker to go there. I was also a little skeptical. Even if you want to trust the programmers of a festival, you know that being in competition is always a mix of good and bad reasons.
This is one of the many burdens I could feel. Being the niece of [Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty], being a good-looking actress. There are so many reasons to feel like you shouldn’t be there and that there was a mistake. Rational, irrational. Hopefully, this light on me arrives at a moment where I know where I come from, I know how much work it took me to be there, and mostly how important it was for me to make that film.
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